Harrison v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for an aggravated assault upon a police officer in a trial before the court without a jury. The punishment was assessed at two years in jail.

Officer V. W. West was alleged to be the assaulted party.

The record reflects that West and Sumner, uniformed officers of the Houston Police Department, answered a call and met Dorothy Harrison at a service station. She informed the officers that appellant was drinking and had run her out of her apartment with a knife. She requested the officers to go to the apartment to get her young child.

When the officers entered…