Gallegos v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of an assault with intent to murder on Valente Garza, and assessed a penalty of ten years in the state penitentiary.

The testimony is confusing to some extent and difficult to understand in its entirety due, perhaps, to the fact that practically all the witnesses were of Mexican descent and testified by means of an interpreter. We do think, however, that it is reasonably clear that on the evening of December 21, 1946, several Mexicans were drinking beer at different “saloons” in Yorktown. Eventually, one Benito Gonzales, came to Alfredo Perez’s saloon,…