State v. Martinez

PONDER, Justice.

The defendants, Henry Martinez and Louis Bommarito, were tried for the crime of burglary and convicted. They pleaded guilty to being multiple offenders and were sentenced to serve eighteen years in the penitentiary. During the course of the trial, their counsel reserved twenty-five bills of exceptions.

Bill of exception No. 1 was levelled at the refusal of the trial judge to grant oyer of an oral statement made by Martinez, one of. the defendants, at the time of his arrest concerning who was the owner of a revolver which was found in an automobile in the possession of Martinez,…