State v. Slayton

SADLER, Justice.

The defendant (appellant) was found guilty by a jury in the district court of Lea County of the crime of assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment in the county jail. He prosecutes this appeal from the judgment and sentence so rendered- against and pronounced upon him.

The first claim of error is that the trial court erred in permitting the filing of an amended information at the opening of the trial. The jury had been duly impaneled and sworn and both sides had announced ready for trial, when the following proceedings took place, to-wit:

“Mr.…