Hall v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of assault with intent to murder, and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

The assault was made by appellant upon his wife, and the State’s case was that he fired on her three times, inflicting two serious wounds. His theory wras that his wife fired first, and thus made the assault, and he fired two shots in self-defense. A brief statement of the evidence discloses: He and- his wife had been separated about three of four months at the time of the difficulty. That prior to the difficulty he had instituted a suit…