Skidmore v. State

Roberts, Chief Justice.

The indictment charges the defendant with having committed an aggravated assault and battery upon one McCautz, by striking him with a pistol and inflicting upon him a serious injury.

The evidence showed that McCautz was drinking, and at Turbitt’s grocery, in the city of McKinney, and wishing to go out at the rear door, he asked Skidmore, the defendant, who was there playing billiards, (being a deputy marshal and policeman,) to open the door. Skidmore told him to open it himself, and went out of the front door; after which McCautz cursed him, for which Turbitt ordered him…