Legal Opinion

Rasberry v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided July 1, 1877Published

Appeal from the County Court of Jasper. Tried below before the Hon. R. C. Doom, County Judge. The opinion states the material facts.

1Opinion of the Court

.White, J.

Appellant was tried and convicted, and fined '$100, in the county court, upon an information charging him with aggravated assault and battery. The case was tried without the intervention of a jury—the jury having been waived—and the case submitted to the court, as now seems to be permissible under our law. Acts Fifteenth Legislature, Gen. Laws, 20, sec. 11.

The motion in arrest of judgment presents the sufficiency of the information, and the motion for a new trial declares the judgment to be contrary to the law and the evidence.

Without copying the statutes, we refer to the General…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Mathews v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1875
  2. State v. PowellTexas Supreme Court · 1859
  3. Chambers v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1874
  4. State v. CorbitTexas Supreme Court · 1874

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