Hernandez v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for murder, punishment five years in the penitentiary.

At a dance on the night before the homicide, altercations occurred between appellant and the husband and brother of deceased. It is claimed by the defense that threats were made at that time. On the morning after the dance two cars, having in them Mexicans, were going along the road a few miles from where the dance took place. In the front car was the brother-in-law of deceased and several others. This car was seventy-five or one hundred yards in advance of the one occupied by Julian Rios, deceased, and some…