Baker v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for aggravated assault upon a peace officer. The jury assessed the punishment at twelve months in jail.

Officers received a call to go to an address in Brownwood where a man was intoxicated. When Officer Jackie Reynolds arrived, he saw the appellant seated in a pickup truck and asked him to get out. According to the State’s testimony, appellant got out and hit Reynolds a glancing blow.

Ronda Carlton, appellant’s daughter and a defense witness, testified that she had her grandmother call the officers and report that a drunk man was at the…