Wright v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

In this case appellant was charged in the District Court of Jefferson County, with the offense of assault with intent to murder. He was convicted of the charge against him and his punishment assessed at confinement in the State penitentiary for five years.

There is only one question in the case which we think it worth while to notice. The person assaulted was one Jim Tarver. It seems that appellant and his wife had been separated for some few weeks before the date of the encounter and assault which is the subject-matter of the controvers)1-. That appellant assaulted Tarver is not…