FARIAS v. STATE

No. 30531.

322 S.W.2d 281 (1959)

Heron FARIAS, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 25, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Butler, Williams & Stone, by Roger Butler, Robstown, Luther E. Jones, Jr., Corpus Christi, for appellant.

Sam L. Jones, Jr., Dist. Atty., Corpus Christi, Nelson R. Sharpe, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Kingsville, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder without malice; the punishment, three years.

In view of our disposition of the case a recitation of the facts is deemed unnecessary.

Appellant filed application for a suspended sentence, and in support thereof testified upon the trial that he had never been convicted of a felony and produced certain character witnesses who testified that his general reputation for truth and veracity and for being a peaceable...

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