Justice v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellants were convicted of an aggravated assault, and their punishment assessed at a fine of $35 each.

Motion was filed to quash the complaint “on the ground that the affiant does not state positively and in direct terms that these defendants committed the offense therein charged, nor that affiant believes that defendants committed the offense—only that the affiant has good reason to believe that said defendants have committed said alleged offense.” The charging part of the complaint is as follows: ■ “I, Sandy Thacker, do solemnly swear, that I have good reasons to believe,…