Loya v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged with the murder of his father, and by the jury assessed a term of ten years in the penitentiary.

The State’s testimony showed that on July 19, 1942, two sons of the deceased Eusebio Loya, Sr., appellant and Manuel Loya, came to the undertaker’s house in Raymondville, Willacy County, Texas, early in the morning and stated that their father was dead, and they needed the services of an undertaker. Answering such call, the undertaker found the body of Eusebio Loya, Sr., a very large man, weighing about 430 pounds, who was dead. The body was placed on a cot and…