Pearce v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted under an indictment charging him with an aggravated assault, and his punishment assessed at a fine of §25, and he prosecutes this appeal. The indictment charges that appellant made an aggravated assault upon one Pete Wells, with a gun, tne same then and there being a deadly weapon. The proof on the-part of the State showed that the defendant overtook the prosecutor, Pete Wells, in the road, and demanded of him to sign what he termed a “libel,” which was a denial on his part that he had made certain statements which the defendant charged he had made…