Perez v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Comanche county of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of 10 years.

The undisputed evidence in the case appears to be that defendant, who is a Mexican, had recently come to the town of Lawton, as a cotton picker, and was boarding at a restaurant operated by a Mexican woman named Petero Moralez; that on the evening of the homicide defendant came into the restaurant and was sitting there waiting for his…