Lott v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The appellant was tried under an indictment charging assault with intent to murder, and the jury found him guilty of aggravated assault and assessed his punishment at two years’ confinement in the county jail.

The record is voluminous and will be summarized.

The injured party, an airman from Carswell Air Force Base, sustained four or more serious knife wounds at the hands of the appellant while in the men’s restroom at the Do and Don’t Lounge in the city of Fort Worth.

The injured party and his companions testified that the assault was unprovoked and was of a brutal…