Watkins v. State

Earl Watkins, plaintiff in error, here referred to as the defendant, was on the 23d day of July, 1920, charged with an assault with intent to kill by means of a deadly weapon, to wit, a pocket knife. By verdict of a jury he was found guilty, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years.

The court instructed the jury, in instruction No. 1, in part as follows:

“The law governing such cases, gentlemen of the jury, says that any person who intentionally and wrongfully commits an assault and battery upon another, by means of any deadly weapon or by such…