Thomas v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge. —

The offense is aggravated assault, punishment fixed at confinement in the county jail for a period of six months.

In a motion in arrest of judgment the prosecution was attacked upon the ground that the complaint was not verified by affidavit. The complaint is in regular form, with the signature of J. L. Boyd, and the jurat by John E. Taylor, County Attorney of Harrison County. Upon the hearing Boyd testified that he was the person who made the complaint and that he signed it, but was not sworn by the officer who took the complaint, or any other officer, and that he…