Bristow v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Henderson. Tried below before Hon. J. A. McDonald, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for aggravated assault upon an officer; penalty, a tine of §25. The indictment is set out in the opinion. A motion by defendant to quash the indictment, because it fails to allege any offense in plain and intelligible words, was overruled.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of an aggravated assault, and his punishment assessed at a fine of §25, and prosecutes this appeal. The charging part of the indictment is as follows: “That Frank Bristow * * * did then and there unlawfully in and upon John McRae, commit an aggravated assault; the said John McRae then an.l there being an officer, to-wit: a riding bailiff for the grand jury in and for Henderson County, Texas, at the February term, 1896, of the District Court of said county, and then and there in the lawful discharge of the duties of said office, and the said Frank…
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