Anderson v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted, charged with assault with intent to murder, and when tried was convicted of an aggravated assault, and his punishment assessed at sixteen months confinement in the county jail.

The evidence would show that appellant and J. I. Gilbert entered into a rental contract for the year 1911, and appellant moved on the farm of Mr. Gilbert. Mr. Gilbert had signed a note of appellant at the bank for $49, and claimed that appellant as a part of the rental contract had agreed to give a mortgage on the first bale of cotton to secure this debt; appellant denied this being…