Vasquez v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The conviction is for sodomy; the punishment, 15 years.

Appellant, a 23 year old citizen of Mexican extraction, born and reared in El Paso, in addition to attending a church school for a time, attended the El Paso public schools for five years, where instructions were carried on in English. Thereafter he worked at various jobs such as at the ice factory, parking cars at a parking lot and “in a soda company selling soda.” He began drinking when he was 17. At first he drank every week-end after he received his pay, and later “he got to drinking every day whenever he was able to…