James v. State

Gould, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for assault with intent to murder. In the bill of indictment as presented and filed the word “court” was omitted where it should have been inserted in order to show that the indictment was presented in the Criminal “ Court” of the city of Jefferson. The court permitted the district attorney to amend by inserting the word omitted, and in so doing did not err. (Brosshard v. The State, 25 Tex. Supp., 209.)

*315The leading facts of the case are, that the defendant and two other prisoners, confined in the jail of Marion county, escaped from…