Hightower v. State

BBOOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of assault with intent to murder, and his punishment assessed at three years confinement in the penitentiary.

The evidence shows that appellant had separated from his wife and went where his wife was staying to see his child, and took the child in his arms and proposed to carry it away, and at this the wife protested and called in other parties to assist her in preventing appellant from carrying out his purpose. On the trial of the case, over appellant’s objection, the court permitted, the State to prove that appellant was married to a woman by the name of…