Bazan v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the penalty, death.

The deceased was a woman, about forty-five years old at the time of the homicide, the appellant a youth of about twenty. Both were Mexicans. The homicide is alleged to have occurred about October 10, 1923. About four years elapsed before the appellant was suspected of the crime. Appellant signed a confession admitting the homicide, but claiming same was in self-defense. The motive for the crime according to the State’s theory was robbery. The reason given by appellant, which finds some corroboration in the record, was substantially as…