Lofton v. State

McCORD, Judge.

Appellant was indicted and convicted for assault with intent to murder and his punishment assessed at four years confinement in the penitentiary.

The case was submitted on assault with intent to murder and aggravated assault. It is made to appear from an inspection of the evidence in this case that on the morning of the 7th day of August, 1909, the defendant came to the house of one Ella Wheeler and went to bed with the said Ella Wheeler, who seems to have been his mistress, and when he lay down on the bed Ella Wheeler got up and went to the trunk and took a pistol that the…