Tyler v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

The offense, assault to murder; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The difficulty took place at night at a-dance, but outside of the house and at a place where it was comparatively dark. Appellant’s brother* G. W. Tyler, referred to by the witnesses as “G. W.,” and the injured party got into an argument and during this argument the injured party, Lester Dollins, was stabbed in the side or back and from the effects of this stabbing the injured party was confined in the hospital some ten or twelve days.

Appellant complains by a proper bill of exception of the failure of…