Wilman v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was charged with an aggravated assault upon Charlie Darden. The means of aggravation is that appellant is an adult and Darden is a child.

Appellant used due and timely diligence to procure the attendance of Mrs. Darden, the mother of the alleged assaulted party. By the absent witness appellant expected to prove, in addition to the facts adduced, that she was the mother of the boy, and that she had turned the boy over to him and asked him to take charge of him as a friend and as a qualified guardian of her child. It is shown she was a widow and unable to…