Rawlins v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is assault to murder with malice; the punishment, ten (10) years.

In appellant’s grounds of error numbered one, two and four, he contends that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction.

The evidence shows that on New Year’s Eve, 1967, the deceased, J. D. Ford, and his wife went to Phil’s Lounge, which was operated by the appellant. Ford got up from his table, went to the table of Lucius Henry, Jr., where the two men became involved in an argument. Appellant and Mrs. Ford temporarily broke up the argument, and Ford and his wife began to walk to the…