MEZA v. STATE

No. 34686.

360 S.W.2d 403 (1962)

David Gonzales MEZA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 10, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Chambers, Houston, King C. Haynie (on appeal only) Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., and Neil McKay, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life.

The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction is challenged.

The question is whether the circumstantial evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the state, is sufficient to sustain the jury's finding that the appellant is the person who committed the offense.

The deceased, a 50 year old Latin American, 5 feet 6 inches in height and weighing 131 pounds...

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