GUAJARDO v. STATE

No. 34788.

363 S.W.2d 259 (1963)

Guadalupe GUAJARDO, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 2, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bonilla, Thomas & De Pena by Harold A. Thomas, Corpus Christi, for appellant.

Sam H. Burris, Dist. Atty., and John L. Campos, Asst. Dist. Atty., Alice, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


McDONALD, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The evidence reflects that following an evening of heavy drinking, the appellant got into a fight with several friends. Appellant's testimony reflects that, after running from the scene of the scuffle, a car tried to run him down. He ran home and got a revolver, but his mother seized the cartridges and refused to give them to him.

His mother testified that a car pulled up in...

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