Moore v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of an assault with intent to murder with malice aforethought, and his punishment was assessed at confinment in the state penitentiary for a term of fifteen years.

The indictment, omitting the formal parts, charged, “that in said County of Grayson and State of Texas, on or about the 1st day of March, A. D. 1936, one Eugene Moore did then and there unlawfully in and upon Vesta Lyons make an assault, with the intent then and there to murder the said Vesta Lyons.”

Art. 1160, P. C., as amended (Vernon’s Ann. P. C.) reads as follows:

“If any person…