Rios v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for life.

Virgil Cox was shot and killed in Comal county near the town of Hunter on the night of March 12th, 1927. His body was discovered on the morning of, March 13th, 1927, in a lane that leads from the Post road to the old New Braunfels-Grune road, near which appellant lived. The body of deceased was found on some bedding covered with quilts about twenty-five yards from a Ford touring car. A 32-calibre discharged pistol shell was found on the ground nearby. Another empty shell of the same size was found…