Gentry v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of aggravated assault and given the lowest penalty—a fine of $25—the charge having been made by complaint and information.

The charging part of the complaint is as follows: “Before me, the undersigned authority, this .day personally appeared J. H. Ball, who, being by me duly sworn, deposes and says that he has good reasons to believe and does believe that, before making this complaint in Fannin County, Texas, on or about the 1st day of April, A. D. 1910, one Laun gentary did then and there unlawfully, who was then and there an adult male, did commit…