Castro v. State
Decision Date | 17 April 1912 |
Citation | 146 S.W. 553 |
Parties | CASTRO v. STATE. |
Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
Appeal from District Court, Galveston County; Clay S. Briggs, Judge.
Frank Castro was convicted of manslaughter, and he appeals. Reversed and remanded.
Marsene Johnson, Elmo Johnson, and Roy Johnson, all of Galveston, for appellant. C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
Appellant was convicted of manslaughter. His punishment was assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary, the maximum for the offense of which he was convicted.
There are quite a number of reasons suggested why the case should be reversed, principally on the charge of self-defense and threats. From the evidence we gather that this trouble came up suddenly between the deceased Trevino and appellant over some financial matters and the repairing of a wagon. They seemed to have been in a good humor almost to the moment of the difficulty. The evidence upon which self-defense is predicated was given by appellant and his wife. He testified that he was acquainted with deceased, and had been for six months; had business relations with him. He also speaks of the business matter between them in which he was repairing a wagon for appellant. The details of that matter are unnecessary here to be related. During their conversation, however, with reference to the wagon, they became a little excited, appellant claiming that deceased was claiming too much money off of him and more than the wagon was worth, and this brought out some exciting conversation. They had been in a very friendly humor it seems up to this time. There were four parties present, and they all had some beer in appellant's house in which the killing occurred, where deceased had gone in company with two other parties. The conversation grew rather warm with reference to the wagon and financial matter, and deceased threatened, to use the language of the witness, to fix appellant. Appellant asked him to leave. Appellant testified then as follows: Being cross-examined, he said:
Mrs. Castro, wife of appellant, testified: That she saw both of the parties just before the shooting. She was standing at the west door in the hall, next to the kitchen, when she saw deceased strike her husband. Her husband tried to get away from him, and deceased grabbed him by the neck and hit him again. Her husband tried to get the pistol and did get it. They both fell down on the floor together. Her husband had the pistol in his right hand, and was trying to defend himself, and as he was trying to do that, hitting Trevino, the pistol went off. Her husband was hitting Trevino with the pistol when it went off.
1. The court charged upon self-defense, among...
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