McCoy v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

The offense, assault with intent to murder; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The evidence in brief offered by the state was to the following effect: The injured party, C. W. Roberts, was a regulaly appointed and acting policeman of the City of McKinney, Texas, at the time he was shot by the appellant with a pistol. The said Roberts had been acting as a night watchman on the night he was shot. Just before the time he was to go off duty, he was informed by one Jack Davis that he had seen a couple of drunk fellows, one of whom was appellant, in a car and they were…