Robinson v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Jackson. Tried below before the Hon. J. S. McNutt, County Judge. This conviction was for an aggravated assault upon the person of Matilda Jones, a female, and the penalty imposed was a fine of five hundred dollars and confinement in the county jail for a period of twelve months. Matilda Jones testified, for the State, that on the twenty-second day of December, 1887, she was in the employ of Doctor F. B. Owens’s family as cook.
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Appeal from the County Court of Jackson. Tried below before the Hon. J. S. McNutt, County Judge. This conviction was for an aggravated assault upon the person of Matilda Jones, a female, and the penalty imposed was a fine of five hundred dollars and confinement in the county jail for a period of twelve months. Matilda Jones testified, for the State, that on the twenty-second day of December, 1887, she was in the employ of Doctor F. B. Owens’s family as cook. On the night of that day, the defendant, apparently very much under the influence of drink, came to Doctor Owens’s kitchen and became…
1Opinion of the Court
Hurt, Judge.
This appeal is prosecuted from a conviction for aggravated assault. Omitting the formal allegations, the information charges “upon the affidavit herewith filed of Matilda Jones, that the said George Robinson * * * did make an assault upon her, the said Matilda Jones, the said Robinson being then and there an adult male, and the said Matilda Jones being then and there a female.” The affidavit charges that George Robinson “did then and there unlawfully make an assault upon her, the said Matilda Jones.”
It was insisted, upon motion in arrest of judgment, that the affidavit did not…
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