GARCIA v. STATE

No. 31991.

336 S.W.2d 164 (1960)

Alfred GARCIA, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 25, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. C. Divine, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Edward D. Michalek, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 20 years.

The deceased, Mavis Zavala, operated the Mesa Lounge, a bar owned by George Hernandez. She had been living with appellant and was pregnant.

Appellant came to the Lounge during the afternoon of October 9, 1959, and talked with the deceased. He came again about 8:30 P.M. and sat in a booth across from where the deceased was sitting long enough to drink three beers, and then went to the...

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