Gibbs v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for assault with intent to murder R. W. Nix, punishment being two years in the penitentiary.

The testimony of Nix is to the effect that on the night the assault was committed he was some three or four miles from Houston, sitting' in Ms car by tbe roadside with a young lady by the name of Miss Gordon; that without any warning whatever, appellant attacked him with a knife while' he was sitting in the car and cut him in a number of places; that the door of his car was open and in the scuffle he got out and knocked, appellant loose after which he ran away. Nix…