Ochoa v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Appellant is sentenced to the penitentiary for life upon conviction as an accomplice in the murder of Alfredo Ochoa. The deceased was the nineteen year old son of appellant, and died in the city of San Antonio from strychnine poison administered on the 22nd day of February, 1919. Francisca Crisantes, a young woman nineteen years of age, Mexican descent, born in Corpus Christi, Texas, was arrested the night on which the homicide occurred. She at first disclaimed the commission of the offense, but about a month later confessed it, implicating appellant, who, at the time of the…