Weaver v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Assault with intent to murder is the offense; the punishment, five years’ confinement in the State penitentiary.

The question presented by this appeal renders a statement of facts unnecessary, further than to say that the State’s testimony showed that appellant shot the injured party twice, in the back of the head, with a pistol, without justification or excuse. One bullet entered the skull, where it was embedded at the time of the trial. The testimony of the attending physician described the wound as being of a serious nature and one from which recovery was rare. -

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