Cordero v. State

297 S.W.2d 174 (1956)

David CORDERO, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 28548.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 28, 1956.

R. Richard Thornton, Galveston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Eugene Brady and Thomas D. White, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is aggravated assault; the punishment, 2 years in jail and a fine of $500.

The injured party, H. J. Luhn, a 60 year old Houston business executive, left his place of business late in the evening in his automobile and first saw the…