Case ID: sw2d_114/html/0878-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "KRUEGER, Judge. HAWKINS, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Placido HANDY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
    No. 19254.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Jan. 19, 1938.
    State’s Rehearing Denied March 23, 1938.
    Kennedy Smith, of Raymondville, for appellant.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State
   KRUEGER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of murder with málice and his punishment was assessed at death.

This is a companion case to that of Ascension Martinez, alias “Chon” Martinez, v. State, 114 S.W.2d 874, this day decided, and involves the identical question which was decided by us in that case.

For the reasons given in that case, the judgment of the trial court is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.

PER CURIAM.

The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.

On State’s Motion for Rehearing.

HAWKINS, Judge.

The question is precisely the same as presented in the state’s motion for rehearing in Ascension Martinez, alias “Chon” Martinez, v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 114 S.W.2d 874. The same reasons which called for overruling the state’s motion in that case demand the same action here.

The state’s motion for rehearing is overruled.