Garrison v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

This appellant stands convicted of the offense of assault with intent to murder. His punishment was fixed at imprisonment for a term of seven years.

The state’s evidence tends to show that on January 2, 1966, at about 11:00 a. m., M. D. King, a highway patrolman, while on routine patrol, came upon a car that was stopped on the road. He stopped and helped the two Negro men there move the car to the edge of the roadway and stayed there while they were fixing a flat tire.

During this time a brown 1958 Chrysler came by at a “pretty high speed,” and the officer attempted to…