Virges v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of an assault with intent to murder and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of seven years.

The record shows that on the night of March 1, 1943, Homer Culp and four other young people were riding in an automobile on Polk Avenue in the City of Houston when the appellant, accompanied by a girl of his race, drove by and sideswiped the automobile occupied by the five young people. They pursued appellant, who ran into a blind street. When he discovered that he was in such a street, he made a U-turn when their car ran…