Compton v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of robbery and given the lowest penalty, five years in the penitentiary.

The charging part of the indictment is as follows: “That C. B. Compton, in said county and State, on or about the 7th day of October, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and eleven, and before the presentment of this indictment, did then and there, unlawfully and wilfully make an assault upon the person of Bufus Biley, and Bob Jamison, and did then and there by said assault and by said violence to the said Bufus Biley and the said Bob Jamison, and by putting the said Bufus…