Case Name: LOPEZ v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1929-04-24
Citations: 17 S.W.2d 807
Docket Number: No. 12479
Parties: LOPEZ v. STATE.
Judges: HAWKINS, J., absent.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 17
Pages: 807–809

Head Matter:
LOPEZ v. STATE.
(No. 12479.)
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 24, 1929.
Rehearing Denied June 5, 1929.
Weaver & Terry, of Corpus Christi, and Lloyd & Lloyd, of Alice, for appellant.
A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMOBE, J.
Conviction for murder; punishment, 25 years in the penitentiary.
For the first time in his motion for new trial appellant complains of certain matters in the charge of the court which are not deemed fundamentally erroneous, if at all.. Where it appears from the record that no exceptions were taken to the charge of the' court, we uniformly hold an attempt to raise irregularities therein for the first time in the motion for new trial to oome too late. Wilson v. State, 83 Tex. Cr. R. 593, 204 S. W. 321; Alsup v. State, 85 Tex. Cr. R. 36, 210 S. W. 195; Flores v. State, 86 Tex. Cr. R. 235, 216 5. W. 170; Brown v. State, 88 Tex. Cr. R. 55, 224 S. W. 1105; Hill v. State, 89 Tex. Cr. R. 450, 230 S. W. 1005; Roberts v. State, 99 Tex. Cr. R. 492, 269 S. W. 103.
Wis have carefully examined the evidence, and are of opinion same is sufficient to afford justification for the verdict. Appellant, with a shotgun, shot deceased at close range as the latter approached the place where his wife and children and appellant were located. There had been some estrange ment between deceased and bis wife, wbo was a sister of appellant, and sbe bad caused tbe arrest of deceased for wife desertion. On tbe nigbt in question, deceased asked some parties to go witb bim to where bis wife was staying witb ber children and he'r brother, this appellant; tbe avowed purpose of deceased being to talk matters over witb bis wife. A young man wbo went witb deceased on said occasion testified that be called out, when they approached tbe bouse, to tbe wife of deceased, that ber husband was there and wanted to speak to ber. She testified that, when this occurred, sbe waked appellant, wbo thereupon put a shell in bis shotgun and shot deceased, who was on tbe outside of tbe bouse. When tbe body of deceased was found tbe next morning, be had in one hand a partially smoked cigarette, and in tbe other an unligbted match. Appellant claimed self-defense, and testified to some threats made by deceased, and that, when be saw deceased coming toward bim, be fired in self-defense. These conflicts in the testimony have been settled by tbe jury adversely to appellant.
Finding no error in tbe record, tbe judgment will be affirmed.
HAWKINS, J., absent.