Parker v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to murder; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The sheriff of Camp County was the injured party. He was sitting in the lower story of the jail at night talking to a deputy sheriff when someone fired at him from without with a shotgun. The state relied upon circumstantial evidence to connect appellant with the offense. The circumstances, if believed, were sufficient to support the conclusion that appellant and one Perrin Cotter were the guilty parties. There was testimony to the effect that appellant and Cotter had…