Williams v. State

The indictment charged that appellant assaulted Bob Gooden with intent to murder him. The majority makes out a case against this appellant for assault with a prohibited weapon upon the witness, Officer Calhoun, but Calhoun was not mentioned in the indictment upon which this appellant went to trial.

According to the alleged injured party, Gooden, appellant, who was his friend and with whom he had had no difficulty or ill feelings, approached the table where he was seated in the second tavern with a gun in his hand and said, “something about ‘you hit it,’ but I don’t know exactly what he said.”…