Basquez v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for assault with intent to murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of ten years.

The following is a synopsis of the State’s evidence: Henry Schindler, upon leaving the house of a woman named Mary Chapman, about four o’clock in the morning, was attacked by the appellant. A rock was thrown at him and thereafter a bottle. The latter struck Schindler in the head and knocked him down. As he jumped up he was cut by the appellant in the jaw and upon the head. He was again knocked down and cut on the head and in the breast. The…