McClendon v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

The offense, assault with intent to murder ; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The evidence for the state, in brief, shows that on the night of June 19, 1930, the appellant went to the house of Mary Ella Wright about 10 or 11 o’clock, said Mary Ella Wright being in bed; that he knocked on the door of the room in which she was sleeping and she asked him who it was, and he replied, “Alfred McClendon”. She testified that he also stated to her before she opened the door, “If you don’t open the G— d— door I will knock it down”; that she lit the lamp in the room and went…