Rodriguez v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder, the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for twenty-five years.

The deceased, Jim Hyman, his brother, John Hyman, and Rufus O’Brien, were hunting at night with dogs. Deceased was carrying a lantern and John Hyman was leading the dogs with a chain. The parties had crossed through a field into the public road. Before reaching the road they saw two cars coming. As they crawled through the fence the cars came by. The dogs pulled to one side and John Hyman jerked them back, saying, “Come in here, you s — s of b — s, them cars will run over you.” The two…