Little v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

—Appellant was convicted of an aggravated assault, and given a punishment of one year in jail and a fine of one thousand dollars.

The record of the facts discloses substantially that on the night of the trouble the brother of appellant and some other young men had approached where the deceased was lying on a bench. A colloquy ensued in which deceased used pretty vigorous language, and from the defendant’s standpoint was in the act of striking his brother when he appeared upon the scene. The deceased was a man five feet and eleven inches in height, and weighed about…