Smith v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

A complaint and information were filed against appellant charging that on June 9, 1910, he, with a gun, the same being then and there a deadly weapon, did unlawfully commit an aggravated assault in and upon G. B. Coughran. The jury found him guilty and assessed his penalty at a fine of $50 and thirty days in jail.

The facts show that on said date the appellant went upon the streets of Colorado City, armed with a double-barreled shotgun, loaded with buckshot, and raised some sort of disturbance. What it was is not disclosed by the testimony. His children ran down to the depot…