Black v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is assault to murder with malice; the punishment, assessed by the jury, 25 years.

Appellant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction. Suffice it to say the record reflects the 25-year-old appellant shot the 67-year-old complaining witness, Collins, four times in the Continental Bus Station in the City of Ft. Worth on the evening of September 9, 1967. Neither man was previously acquainted with the other. Appellant, who had been drinking Vodka earlier in the day, testified that at the time Collins made an indecent proposal to…