Ramirez v. State

OPINION

GREEN, Commissioner.

This appeal is from a conviction of aggravated assault under the provisions of V.T.C.A., Penal Code, Section 22.02(a)(2). Punishment was assessed at five years. V.T.C.A., Penal Code, Section 12.34.

The evidence of the State, when considered most favorably to the judgment, reflects that during the early morning hours of February 26, 1974, appellant assaulted a police woman who was trying to arrest him for an offense committed in her presence and struck her a number of blows on her face with his fists. At the time, she was in the lawful discharge of her duties as a…