State v. Bradley
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. George H. Noonan. The indictment alleged that “Martin Bradley, on the thirteenth day of the month of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, in said county of Bexar, unlawfully, with intent to injure one P. C. Ankerman and one H. D. Bonnet, with force and arms in and upon the said P. 0. Ankerman, then and there being the deputy sheriff of said Bexar county, and in the lawful discharge of the duties…
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Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. George H. Noonan. The indictment alleged that “Martin Bradley, on the thirteenth day of the month of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, in said county of Bexar, unlawfully, with intent to injure one P. C. Ankerman and one H. D. Bonnet, with force and arms in and upon the said P. 0. Ankerman, then and there being the deputy sheriff of said Bexar county, and in the lawful discharge of the duties of his office, and in and upon the said H. D. Bonnet, then and there being the sheriff of the said Bexar county, and in…
1Opinion of the CourtQsdeet, J.
There is no brief or assignment of errors filed in this case by the Attorney General, 'who has submitted the case upon the record only, leaving an inference to be drawn from that fact that no error existed; but, upon an examination of the record, we think there is sufficient error upon the face of the record to require a reversal of the judgment of the lower court. We are of the opinion that the court erred in sustaining the defendant’s motion to quash the indictment. An indictment for an assault with an intent to murder would not necessarily be bad, though it should also charge other degrees…
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