Simpson v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the County Court of Tarrant County, of being a delinquent child, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the State Training School for Boys, for a period of three years.

Several matters are here urged as grounds for reversal: The first complaint is, that the trial court erred, in that he submitted in his charge, the issue of aggravated assault, but nowhere gave a definition of the offense, or told the jury what were the elements of the same, or what it would take to constitute an aggravated assault. It is specifically provided by the amendment to…