Hernandez v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, forty years.

The state established that, on the day of the homicide, appellant bought the pistol which he used in the commission of the offense herein charged.

Several witnesses present at a grocery store on the day in question, one of whom was wounded by a bullet from appellant’s pistol, testified that appellant, without provocation and without having any words with deceased, who was evidently a total stranger to him, drew his pistol and began to fire, causing the death of deceased and the wounds to the witness, who was also a stranger to…