Davis v. State

McCORD, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted on information in the court below for an aggravated assault committed upon the person of one R. W. Davis, who was then and there a person aged and decrepit and appellant a person of robust health and strength, his punishment being assessed at a fine of $25 and ninety days in jail.

The proof discloses that the prosecuting witness, R. W. Davis, was a man seventy-five years old; had been a cripple all his life, had to walk on two sticks and was barely able to wait on himself.- The appellant was shown to be his son, a man of robust health, a man about…