Ramirez v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The indictment charged that appellant did, by force and violence and by threats of force and violence, attempt to prevent Mary Garza from engaging in a lawful vocation. A trial before a jury on April 16, 1953, resulted in a verdict of guilty, with punishment assessed at one year in the penitentiary.

There was a sharp conflict between the testimony of the state’s witnesses and that of the appellant as to what occurred on May 12, 1951, on the occasion of appellant’s visit to the Garza home, appellant denying that he made the threats attributed to him by Mary Garza on that…