Wood v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bell. Tried below before the Hon. W. A. Blackburn. The conviction in this case was for an assault with intent to-murder one Isaac Grubbs, and the penalty assessed by the verdict was a term of two years in the penitentiary. Isaac Grubbs was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Bell. Tried below before the Hon. W. A. Blackburn. The conviction in this case was for an assault with intent to-murder one Isaac Grubbs, and the penalty assessed by the verdict was a term of two years in the penitentiary. Isaac Grubbs was the first witness for the State. He testified that on the evening of July 13, 1887—the day alleged in the indictment as the date of the offense—he and- his brother drove some cows from their home to a water hole in a pasture, and after watering the cows turned them out of the pasture into a lane. When the last cow was…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
At a former day of the present term we affirmed the judgment in this case without a written opinion. Distinguished counsel, representing appellant, have filed a motion for rehearing, and in addition to the able printed brief originally filed we have been favored and profoundly impressed with the oral argument submitted upon the issue *401presented in the motion. We are free to confess that the positions assumed in the argument are most plausible and persuasive, and, had we been upon the trial jury trying the case, it may be that under the facts we might have arrived at a…
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