Castillo v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 10 years.

Officer Titus testified that, in response to a call, he went to a house on East Ninth Street in the city of Pecos on the night in question and there saw a woman lying in the front yard and observed a gun wound in her lower back. Within a few minutes, a pickup truck came to a stop nearby, and the occupant started walking toward the spot where he and his fellow officer were standing near the woman; that he instructed the man to stand back but the man said, “No, I am the one” or “I am the one that did it,” and he then recognized…