Forrester v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of an assault with intent to murder and her punishment fixed at the lowest prescribed by law,—two years in the penitentiary. The evidence is amply sufficient to sustain the verdict and judgment.

The assault was charged to have been committed on November 2, 1912, on Lee Simmons, who was a few days later elected sheriff of said county, and duly qualified, and was such sheriff at the time of this trial. The case was tried and the verdict rendered on May 7, 1913. The court adjourned for the term ten days, later. When the case was called for…