CORTEZ v. STATE

No. 36394.

375 S.W.2d 313 (1964)

Alberto Ornelas CORTEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 26, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theo. Pat Henley, San Antonio, for appellant.

James E. Barlow, Dist. Atty., John G. Benavides, Asst. Dist. Atty., San Antonio, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 20 years.

Felipe C. Adams testified that on the night in question he sat and drank beer at Martin's Ice Station, that appellant joined him about 9:00 p. m. and remained there until shortly before 11:00, during which interval deceased, who was standing with a group of young men around a telephone booth across the street came across to Martin's and bought quarts of beer which he took back to the telephone...

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