Denham v. State

OPINION

W. C. DAVIS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for aggravated assault; the punishment assessed is imprisonment for 10 years. The indictment alleges that the appellant used a knife, a deadly weapon, intentionally to threaten imminent bodily injury to the complainant.

Appellant’s sole contention is that the evidence is insufficient to prove that the knife she used to stab the complainant was a deadly weapon. The knife, which was not offered for identification nor introduced in evidence, was described by the complainant, without contradiction, as a butcher knife with a blade seven…