Eagle v. State

Morrow, Presiding Judge.

Assault with intent to murder is the offense; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Drew Dodson, the alleged injured party, testified that he was an attendant at the Lock Filling Station on South Congress Avenue in the city of Austin; that on the afternoon of December 25, 1937, the appellant and three other negroes drove up to the filling station in an automobile for the purpose of purchasing some gasoline. Appellant asked for permission to use the restroom. Dodson referred him to Mr. Lock, who was in charge of the station, and appellant was…