Thomas v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was indicted in the District Court of Johnson County for the offense of assault with intent to murder one W. W. Dabbs. On trial he was convicted of aggravated assault and his punishment assessed at a. fine of $25 and six months confinement in the county jail.

The evidence in brief shows that on the night of the 19th or April, 1906, on East Henderson Street, in the city of Cleburne, the witness Dabbs, with one Joe Hays, was near where appellant, as they claimed, was cursing and abusing a small white boy, and that they intervened and protested .against such abuse, and…