Bryant v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was indicted in the District Court of Aransas County for the offense of assault with intent to murder one Joe Word. On trial he was convicted of the crime charged against him, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

1. The evidence shows, substantially, that on the day of the homicide appellant and Joe Word had gone with a number of other persons, including Ida Murry, a young negro woman, to a festival near Rock-port, and while there appellant seems to have taken offense at the attention shown by Joe Word to Ida Murry, accosting these…