Cates v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to murder ; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The evidence is sufficient to support the finding that appellant made an assault upon Maggie Murphree with the intent to murder her. The state offered in evidence appellant’s confession which was to the effect that he shot the injured party with a pistol because she had left his home and married another man. It appears that appellant and the injured party had lived in the same house, although they were not married.

It was charged in the indictment that appellant “did…