Legal Opinion

Washington v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided February 11, 1970No. 42563PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, fifty years.

In his second ground of error the appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evi*632dence. The state’s evidence reflects the following:

On November 26, 1966 Mrs. Carrie Cain Woods was in the front yard of Pete Escovedo’s (the deceased) house at 2300 .Reed Road in Harris County, Texas (Mrs. Woods owned the tract of property on which both the deceased’s house and the house at which the shooting took place were located) when she saw a pickup truck with three men and a woman in it, pull in at the rear of a house she…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Thomas Lorenzo Williams v. Dr. George Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
  2. Goodrum v. BetoDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1969
  3. Morrow v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1965
  4. King v. BetoDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1969

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Washington v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1970

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