Legal Opinion

Kerr v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided May 29, 1918No. 5043PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from the County Court of Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. Dayton B. Steed. Appeal from a conviction of aggravated assault; penalty, a fine of one hundred dollars.

1Opinion of the Court

MORROW, Judge.

This is a conviction for aggravated assault with penalty of a fine of $100.

From the State’s evidence it appears that appellant, a young man, while he and Bernice Bright were out riding put his arm around her. She says: “When we got out in the country about three miles Kerr stopped the car and rolled a cigarette. I asked him what he stopped for, and he just laughed sort of a silly little laugh. Then he put his arm around me clear around to here (indicating her right breast) and was trying to get it further around me, when I pulled away from him and jumped out of the car.” She…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Shields v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Ritcher v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1923
  2. Grace v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1930

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