Bracken v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to murder ; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for 2 years.

H. C. Redding, the injured party, had been instrumental in filing a complaint against appellant charging him with selling whiskey. Several witnesses for the state testified that appellant, upon learning that the injured party had been instrumental in filing the complaint, threatened to do him bodily injury. Appellant denied that he made such threats. Touching the immediate transaction resulting in the shooting by appellant of the injured party, the injured party testified…