Cooley v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of an assault with intent to murder and his punishment assessed at the lowest prescribed by law.

It is unnecessary to make any extended statement of the case or evidence. The evidence raised and the court submitted, self-defense,— especially under what appellant claimed was the attempted execution of threats by Mr. Pugh, the assaulted party. The question of threats was a material one. The State undertook to show, and its testimony with more or less strength does show, that said Pugh made no serious threats or, if so, they were conditional,…