Hightower v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is assault with intent to murder; the punishment, confinement in the peniteitnary for four years.

Appellant, a negro, cut Claude Wallace, a white man, on the head with a small pocket knife. According to the testimony of the doctor, the injured party would have bled to death unless he had immediately received proper medical attention. The injured party testified, in substance, that appellant came into his store and asked for a can of Prince Albert smoking tobacco, and he asked appellant if he had his money and he replied that he did; that he gave him the tobacco;…