Caraker v. State

THORNAL, Justice.

Appellant seeks reversal of a judgment and sentence of ten years imprisonment entered pursuant to the verdict of a jury finding him guilty of the crime of assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree.

The principal ground assigned for reversal is that the evidence is insufficient to prove the intent essential to sustain conviction of the crime of assault with intent to commit first degree murder. The record shows that the night before the offense the appellant telephoned the home of one Jennings and in a conversation with Jennings’ wife with reference to her…