Patterson v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of an assault to murder with malice upon one Carter Hays, and by the jury given a term of five years in the penitentiary.

The facts proven by the State reveal that two women, stepsisters, in company with a man named Jim Woodward, went to D. Brown’s dine, drink and dance place in San Augustine County where beer and sandwiches were sold, and were there dancing, and there consumed certain quantities of beer. While they were thus drinking appellant, who was unknown to all but one of these persons, came up and was drinking with them. That appellant became…