Jarvis v. State

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

The offense is. assault with intent to murder; the punishment, twenty years.

Two grounds of error are urged by appellant in his brief filed in the trial court.

The first ground of error complains of the court’s refusal to grant a new trial because of alleged newly discovered evidence.

At the trial on the issue of appellant’s guilt, the injured party, Mary Helen Jackson, nineteen years of age, testified that on the night in question, while she was attending a carnival with certain members of her family, the appellant shot her with a .22 calibre pistol. Her testimony was…