Pendley v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant was indicted for and convicted of assault with intent to murder.

The appellant interposed pleas of not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity.

The victim of the assault was Travis Lawrence, who at the time was Sheriff of Fayette County. Mr. Lawrence and other officers had arrested appellant and three other men, and while transporting them in an automobile the appellant, apparently without warning, ■ attacked Lawrence and inflicted a more or less serious wound with a knife.

The State’s evidence, actually undisputed as to the attack, was abundant in its…