Vasquez v. State

371 S.W.2d 389 (1963)

Esteban VASQUEZ, Jr., Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 35443.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 20, 1963.

Rehearing Denied May 15, 1963.

Second Motion for Rehearing Denied June 12, 1963.

Third Motion for Rehearing Denied October 16, 1963.

Aycock & Steinle, Jourdanton, for appellant.

J. Taylor Brite, Dist. Atty., Robert C. Koehl, County Atty., Jourdanton, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

McDONALD, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for twenty years.

It is undisputed that on April 15,…