Culp v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was charged with aggravated assault upon one Murl Alsup by cutting him with a knife inflicting thereby serious bodily injury. The jury found him guilty of simple assault and battery, assessing his punishment at a fine of $25.

Murl Alsup, the alleged assaulted party, testified that on Sunday, the 13th of December, 1908, he saw appellant, and spoke to him, and asked him why he did not turn him in, as he was drunk; that appellant replied, that he was no officer, that he had not been sworn in. Alsup had a bolt in his hand at the time and punched appellant in the…