Priest v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is aggravated assault; the punishment, a fine of $25.

The information and complaint charged an aggravated assault by an adult male upon a female, and in order to warrant a conviction the prosecution was bound to prove the allegation as laid, — that is, that appellant was an adult male. By “adult” is meant a person who has attained the full age of twenty-one years. Texas Jurisprudence, vol. 4, p. 857; Ellers v. State (Texas Crim. App.), 55 S. W., 813; Galbraith v. State (Texas Crim. App.), 13 S. W., 607; Henkel v. State, 27 Texas App., 510, 11 S. W., 671. The…