Basham v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

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

Buster McCrary was night watchman at a gin. About one block away was a second gin at which appellant’s brother was night watchman. On the night of October 28th, 1929, some one entered the gin where McCrar)r worked and shot him with a pistol. According to the testimony of the injured party and his physicians, the wound was serious. It was the theory of the state that appellant and his brother had been stealing cotton from the gins, and that they had endeavored to…