Booker v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Assault with intent to murder without malice is the offense; the punishment, two years in the State penitentiary.

The sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction is challenged.

According to the testimony of the injured party, he was at a beer tavern, drinking beer and talking with appellant’s brother, when appellant, without saying a word, came up and began cutting him with a knife, inflicting some wounds about the face, nose and lip, as a result of which he bled rather freely. He was carried to a doctor, who dressed the wounds and sewed them up. The doctor testified…