Brown v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted and assessed a term of five years in the penitentiary for assault with a prohibited weapon, the indictment alleging that while unlawfully carrying on and about his person a pistol he did, with said pistol, wilfully commit an assault upon Jack Revill.

The evidence from the state’s standpoint was that Jack Revill and W. B. Frazier, Detectives of the Dallas Police De- partmént, on September 3, 1958, were seated in an unmarked Ford automobile on a public street in a colored residential area in South Dallas shortly after midnight; that a third officer was in…