Freeman v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is assault upon a peace officer with intent to murder, under Art. 1160a, Vernon’s Ann.P.C.; the punishment, ninety-nine (99) years.

The appellant’s first four grounds of error grow out of the failure of the indictment to include the word “peace” before the word “officer.” The indictment, omitting the formal parts, reads as follows:

“Willie Freeman * * * did then and there unlawfully with malice aforethought, shoot Bob Parrish with a pistol with intent then and there to murder the said Bob Parrish. The said Bob Parrish then and there being an officer, to wit, a…