Yeager v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense assault to murder, penalty fifteen years in the penitentiary.

The facts briefly stated sufficient to illustrate the legal points discussed are as follows:

The appellant took prosecuting witness, Dorothy Bronson, to a resort called “Shadowland,” near San Antonio, where some drinking occurred, after which they returned to the house of a friend, appellant at the time being very drunk. Here prosecuting witness testified that appellant pulled out a small pocketknife with a blade about two and a half • inches long and cut her three times. She afterwards testified that she would…