Haley v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, assault to murder; penalty, two years in the penitentiary.

The appellant with his two brothers attended a dance in Gillespie County and there became engaged in an altercation with a deputy sheriff arising out of the drunkenness of appellant’s brother. During such altercation appellant was hit over the head with a pair of handcuffs by the deputy sheriff and according to appellant’s testimony, corroborated by witnesses, he was thereby so dazed and stupefied as not to know what he was doing thereafter until he arrived home sometime after the difficulty ended. While the…