Legal Opinion

Gunishaw v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 14, 1962No. 34,375Published

1Opinion of the Court

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for assault with intent to murder without malice; the punishment, one year.

The injured party and her brother lived across the street from the appellant. Immediately before the shooting, they had returned from a grocery store in a car with appellant’s stepson. After the car stopped near appellant’s home, without saying anything the appellant shot the injured party from a distance of *267about three feet with a .22 rifle while she was still in the car: The injured party was shot five times in the left side of the body. She was hospitalized for 12 days, and still…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Woods v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1948
  2. Thomas v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1959
  3. Leath v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1961

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