Pool v. State

McCORD, Judge.

The indictment in this case charged appellant with making an assault upon one Holcomb, and did then and there unlawfully,. wilfully. and maliciously "cut off and bite off and chew off with his teeth, and deprive the said W. P. Holcomb of an ear, to wit, his right ear, and thereby deprive him of said member of his body, thereby maiming him, the said Holcomb.” And in the second count it was charged that he disfigured the said Holcomb by then and there maliciously placing a mark by means of his teeth upon the face of him, the said Holcomb, to disfigure him by biting off a part of…