Price v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Indicted for assault with intent to murder, appellant’s conviction was for aggravated assault condemning him to confinement in the county jail for two years.

Appellant and George Gerald, the alleged injured party, are negroes, and there is evidence that on the occasion of the difficulty both had been drinking intoxicating liquors; that they were strangers to each other; that they met at night; that appellant approached Gerald, using an expression current among the negroes in the neighborhood, inviting him to gamble; that Gerald did not understand the purport of the language; that…