State v. Rodriguez

OPINION

TACKETT, Justice.

The appellant was charged with murder on April 11, 1969. He was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the New Mexico State Penitentiary. He appeals.

It appears from the record that the deceased Jose Manuel Apodaca, his wife and her sister and brother-in-law, went to a dance at a bar. The appellant was present in the bar when they entered. The appellant tried either to sit at the decedent’s table, or to dance with one of the women in the group. The deceased told the appellant to leave the table; they then walked to a…