TORRES v. STATE

No. 36127.

374 S.W.2d 669 (1964)

Joe TORRES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 12, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No attorney for appellant on appeal.

Guilford L. Jones, Dist. Atty., Big Spring, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

Our original opinion herein is withdrawn and the following substituted in lieu thereof.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 15 years.

Evidence was introduced by the State to the effect that, without any words being exchanged or any overt action on the part of the deceased, the appellant walked up to deceased, put a pistol to his head and shot him. The appellant introduced evidence of communicated threats plus evidence of the first...

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