McEntire v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged with an assault to murder, and upon trial he was convicted of an aggravated assault and assessed a penalty of one year in the county jail.

The statement of facts shows that on the night of February 9, 1941, at a dine and drink cafe, appellant cut Claude Little-ton with a knife five times. Evidently such wounds were serious because of the fact that blood filled the lungs of the injured person; he was bleeding externally and internally, and he was taken to a hospital where an operation was performed upon him by some physicians. Appellant pleaded self-defense,…