Taylor v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of an assault with intent to kill his wife and his punishment assessed at six years in the penitentiary.

Appellant and his wife had been married for about four years. Early in March, 1917, she left and quit him, it seems the second time. She swore that he cursed and abused her and threatened to kill her and told her that “she wasn’t decent enough for white folks to live with,” which was the immediate cause of her quitting and leaving him. She went to her mother’s. Appellant blamed her mother and her brother, with whom her mother lived, for her…