Williams v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to murder; the punishment, ten years.

*404Willis, the injured party, testified that on the evening prior to the day charged in the indictment, his wife and the appellant’s wife had gotten into a fight at a beer parlor in which his wife had received a stab wound, that he had intervened and hit the appellant’s wife in the head with his closed knife in order to prevent her from inflicting further injuries upon his wife. Willis stated that in the afternoon of the day following the appellant passed his (Willis’) home, spoke to his…