Riley v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

Appellant and Mrs. Vera Riley, the injured party, had three small children, all of them being girls. Shortly before the assault Mrs. Riley had obtained a divorce from appellant. Under the divorce decree she was to have the custody of the children, but at stated times appellant was to have them. Prior to the divorce appellant had accused his wife of going with one Dee Baker, who was married. According to appellant’s version, he had found several letters in his wife’s…