Garrett v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of an assault with intent to murder, and given two years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. Appellant relied upon two theories in the case. One theory claiming a mitigation or reduction of the offense from an assault with intent to murder to an aggravated assault, on the the ground that the defendant acted, in the matter of shooting the prosecutor, on account of alleged insulting conduct towards Mrs. Patterson, the sister of the defendant. The other ground was self-defense. No complaint was made as to the charge on that subject, and so it…