Case Name: Bravillo Alonzo v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1930-03-19
Citations: 114 Tex. Crim. 536
Docket Number: No. 13131
Parties: Bravillo Alonzo v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 114
Pages: 536–537

Head Matter:
Bravillo Alonzo v. The State.
No. 13131.
Delivered March 19, 1930.
Reported in 26 S. W. (2d) 920.
The opinion states the case.
G. N. Brubaker of San Marcos, for appellant.
A. A. Dawson of Canton, State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
CHRISTIAN, Judge.
The offense is murder; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for life.
The indictment charged that appellant "did then and there unlawfully and voluntarily kill Florencio Castillo by shooting him with a gun." There being no allegation that the killing was upon malice aforethought, the state was not authorized to seek a penalty in excess of five years. Swilley vs. State, Opinion 12,792, delivered December 11, 1929, and not yet reported. The jury assessed the penalty at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. If a penalty in excess of five years is to be sought a new indictment should be returned.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
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.