Foster v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Fort Bend. Tried below before Hon. T. S. Reese. Appeal from a conviction for assault with intent to murder; penalty, seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with an assault with intent to murder, committed on the 10th of January, 1898, upon one Ben Robinson, “with a knife, with a piece of iron, and some sharp instrument to the grand jurors unknown.”
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Appeal from the District Court of Fort Bend. Tried below before Hon. T. S. Reese. Appeal from a conviction for assault with intent to murder; penalty, seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with an assault with intent to murder, committed on the 10th of January, 1898, upon one Ben Robinson, “with a knife, with a piece of iron, and some sharp instrument to the grand jurors unknown.” The parties to the transaction were half-brothers, and the difficulty seems to have had its origin in the fact that Ben Robinson, the injured party, had eloped with and…
1Opinion of the Court
HERDERS OR, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of an assault with intent to murder, and his punishment assessed at seven years confinement in the penitentiary; hence this appeal.
On the trial the State introduced Ben Robinson as a witness. Appellant objected to his competency, and introduced against him the record of two convictions, both in the District Court of Fort Bend County, and both for the theft of a mare. One cause (Ro. 1813) in which witness was convicted and given five jrears in the penitentiary, and on the final sentence notice of appeal was given. This conviction bore date May 16,…
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