Howle v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, assault to murder; penalty, two years in the penitentiary.

Jim Morgan, the injured party, was severely cut and stabbed during a fight at a country dance. He testified as to the beginning of the difficulty in part as follows: “Just before I got to the car I heard somebody behind me say ‘you G— d— s— of a b-, I will cut your head off’ and I turned around to see who it was and it was him, Fowler Howie, and he had hit at me. I was walking off from him when he said that to me. He was behind me at that time. When I turned he struck at me with a knife and cut me in the neck.”…