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Title: Benny Aguirre v. State Texas
Author : Fourteenth District, Houston Court of Appeals of Texas
Release Date : January 01, 1987
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 62 KB

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Appellant was tried for the murder of his thirteen year old daughter. The evidence showed that appellant and the childs mother were married for a strife-ridden fifteen year period. After their divorce in 1975, the trouble continued. Testimony at trial alluded to several instances in the intervening years during which appellant threatened to kill his wife. During the evening of February 10, 1978, the appellant went to his ex-wifes home. Upon discovering that she was gone and had left his three daughters, ages fifteen, thirteen and seven alone, appellant became enraged. He began berating his ex-wifes conduct to his daughters. When his eldest daughter objected to his characterizations of her mother, appellant replied that he was going to kill his ex-wife. The next afternoon, appellant drove to his ex-wifes house and parked his truck in front of the house. When his ex-wife came to the front door, he demanded that she come out and talk to him. She told him to go away and then went back inside the house. At that point, appellant got his shotgun out of the truck, walked up on the porch and fired a blast through the front door. Pellets from this blast passed through the door, through the house and into the kitchen, striking appellants thirteen year old daughter. Next appellant went to his ex-wifes car, raised the hood and fired another shotgun blast into the cars engine. Then he walked to the back of the house and fired a final shotgun blast into the back door. Appellant then kicked in the back door and found his daughter lying wounded on the kitchen floor. Appellant testified at trial that he shot at the door only in order to open it and had no intent to kill anyone.