Barnes v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

—Appellant, under an indictment charging him with assault with intent to murder, was convicted of aggravated assault. Without going into a detailed statement of the facts, the record discloses that on Christmas night appellant was in the saloon of one Sinclair and had some trouble with John Broadnax, during which Broadnax struck him in the face or upon the forehead with a beer bottle, inflicting a rather severe wound, which caused a considerable flow of blood. Shortly afterwards, some distance from that point, and while he was en route home, as he claims, he passed…