Darnell v. State

Appellant was convicted of assault to murder, his punishment being assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

Without undertaking to go into a detailed statement of the facts, which covers something like forty pages, a brief summary of this part of the record may be thus stated: Appellant and the assaulted party, Master, were neighbors. Appellant's stock on several occasions strayed into Master's crops, and were taken up by Master and pay was demanded for these depredations. These matters continued until they engendered ill feeling between the parties. It is also shown that upon…