Wright v. State

TYSON, Presiding Judge.

Tommie Wright, alias, was indicted for unlawfully assaulting, with intent to murder, one Benjamin Holman. The jury found the appellant “guilty of assault with intent to murder,” as charged in the indictment, and the trial court entered judgment, which set sentence at ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Benjamin Holman testified that he had known the defendant, Tommie Wright, for some thirteen or fourteen years, having grown up in the same neighborhood, and having played ball with him. He testified that in December, 1976, on a Friday night, near Christmas, he was…