BARRIENTEZ v. STATE

No. 45899.

487 S.W.2d 97 (1972)

Francisco BARRIENTEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 22, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Foreman & DeGuerin, by Dick DeGuerin, Houston, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., James C. Brough and Vic Pecorino, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; punishment was assessed by a jury at life.

Appellant presents seven grounds of error.

The record reflects that on November 3, 1970, Alex Cantu, a bartender in the Caribbean Lounge in Houston, was shot and killed by a man wielding a sawed-off shotgun. Evidence was presented that appellant and his brother John had argued with Cantu that evening, concerning the ownership of the bar....

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