Inglen v. State

HURT, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was charged with an aggravated assault upon his stepdaughter, was convicted and his punishment assessed at fifteen months in the county jail, and a fine of 6500, and appeals. The girl testified that she was 13 years of age; that she was sitting on the steps of a grocery store, a short distance from the family residence, when the defendant approached her and ordered her to go home. This she refused to do, whereupon he struck her with his open hand. When he ordered her home, she asked the question, “Where is mamma?” and he then struck her. She testified that the…