Webb v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 20 years.

The appellant was the operator of a street car which ran across the international border between Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. The theory of the state was that the deceased, who had been drinking, asked the appellant for a transfer; that this request irritated the appellant, who hit the deceased over the head with a piece of the street car equipment called a “switch bar,” causing his death; that the deceased was unarmed at the time and made no threatening gesture toward the appellant.

The appellant testified that when the…