Jones v. State

PBEUDEBGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted for an assault with intent to murder Clyde Creighton, and his punishment assessed at the lowest prescribed by law.

Appellant was a negro waiter at a hotel in Mineral Wells. Creighton was a young white man who had supervision of the waiters and the dining room and checked and made change for guests who ate thereat. There was an early train leaving Mineral Wells and guests of the hotel desiring to leave-on that train were furnished breakfast. It was both Creighton’s and appellant’s duty to be in the dining-room by about 6 o’clock each morning.…