Hand v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of aggravated assault in the District Court of Hill County, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $50 and five months in the county jail.

The indictment against appellant was for an assault with intent to rape, and sufficiently charges that offense, but the trial court, after all the evidence was introduced, submitted to the jury only the question of an aggravated assault. This action of the court is most vigorously assailed by appellant in an able and ingenious brief and argument, referring to many decisions of this Court, the contention being that…