Lugo v. State

Krueger, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment assessed is death.

The record shows that on the night of February 15, 1938, appellant killed Dick Chisholm in the town of Odem and then took from his person $8.00 in money, a pistol and a pocket knife.

A few days after the offense was committed, appellant was arrested in Corpus Christi and made a written confession to the officers in which he admitted the killing. He stated that Chisholm had struck him on the head with a pistol some two weeks prior to the time of the alleged offense. That on the night of the homicide, he was in the town of…