Cyrus v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of assault to murder, •and his punishment assessed at six years confinement in the State penitentiary.

The State’s evidence would show that appellant and his wife were visiting at the residence of her mother, Boxy Gaines. That Boxy Gaines and her daughter, appellant’s wife, desired to go and see a kinsman, May Eliza Bonner, who was sick, and appellant objected to his wife going. Words ensued, when the woman learned appellant was armed with a pistol, and Boxy^ Gaines asked some of those present to go after Lee Lamb. They did not go and Boxy Gaines went in…