McDonald v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of assault with intent to murder, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

On the trial of the case the court charged upon assault with intent to murder and aggravated assault. We see nothing in the evidence suggesting the latter. According to the testimony of the State the defendant made an assault upon prosecuting witness with a knife, inflicting divers and sundry wounds, many of which penetrated the cavity, from which wounds she was laid up in bed two or three weeks. The injuries were inflicted in a cruel and deliberate…