Villa v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for assault to murder; punishments, six and two years in the penitentiary, respectively.

Appellants were jointly charged with making an assault upon one Gurkasch with their malice aforethought, and with intent to kill and murder him. The records show that both appellants pleaded guilty. The court told the jury in his charge to find each of the defendants guilty as charged in the indictment and assess the punishment of each at confinement in the penitentiary for any number of years not less than two nor more than fifteen, as the jury might determine. The appellants…