Jackson v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of assault to murder, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

See former opinion 48 Texas Crim. Rep., 373, 88 S. W. 239. The facts, in substance, show that appellant, quite intoxicated, bought a ticket at Texarkana and boarded the south-bound train. After being on the train sometime he went into the vestibule of. the car occupied by negroes, and a pistol in possession of appellant was discharged. The conductor Cannon, being informed of said fact, went to where appellant was, and this, in substance, is a statement of what…