Perry v. State

HARPER, Judge.

—On June 30 of 1910 appellant was convicted in the District Court of Bastrop County on a charge of assault with intent to murder, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of seven years.

While the facts were in dispute, there is sufficient evidence to sustain the verdict and authorize the jury to believe that the attack on the assaulted party was substantially unprovoked, and was under such conditions as to stamp it of a quality of assault with intent to murder. When the case was called appellant made an application for a continuance for want of…