Leverett v. State

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for assault to murder with malice; the punishment, four years.

The evidence reveals that the appellant, Joan Gail Leverett, and the assaulted party, Howard Leverett, had previously been married, and during their marriage, they had one child, a boy, twelve years of age at the time of the alleged offense herein on November 14, 1968. Upon their divorce June 17, 1957, the appellant was awarded custody of the boy with the provision that she not remove him from Rusk County without permission of the court. The appellant and her son lived with her parents until…