Franz v. State

Morrow, Presiding Judge.

Aggravated assault with an automobile is the offense; penalty assessed at a fine of $100.00.

The State’s witness, E. A. Hooper, was driving a 1985 model Ford V-8 coupe about 8:00 o’clock on the night of August 30, 1937. The car belonged to Mrs. Hattie Scott, who had engaged Hooper to do some work on it. He was driving the car at the request of Mrs. Scott in order to ascertain some defect in the mechanism. As Hooper and Mrs. Scott were traveling on the Telephone Road going out of Houston, they met a truck which was traveling toward Houston. Hooper and Mrs. Scott had…