Hill v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to murder with malice aforethought; the punishment, assessed by the court after a verdict of guilty, 12 years.

In both grounds of error the appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction.

Roy Hughes, a truck driver, testified that on the night of August 10-11th, 1968, while on a trip from San Antonio to Trinidad, Colorado, he stopped his truck at a roadside park on U. S. Highway 87, 14 or so miles from Sterling City, around 10 p. m. and went to sleep in the truck sleeper behind the cab. He awoke thinking he…