Powell v. State

Webb, Judge.

Henry David Powell was indicted and .convicted of the ¡.offense of aggravated assault upon "Jesse Lewis Hamilton with a -certain knife, a deadly weapon,” for which he received a sentence of five years in the penitentiary. He enumerates as error on his appeal (1) the admission into evidence of the knife allegedly used in the assault, contending that it was not positively identified; (2) the failure of the trial court to charge the jury that the state must show that the accused intended to take the life of the victim; and (3) the trial court’s failure to charge the jury that if they…