Dickey v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant,'an adult person, was convicted of an aggravated assault upon a child, and by a jury given a penalty of two years in jail.

The testimony shows that appellant was found holding up a girl child six years old, according to the father’s testimony, “up in his arms, like that (indicating.) He was as close to her as he could get.” The father knocked appellant down, and the little girl ran home. Again, the father testified: “I didn’t see the defendant do anything to my daughter outside of holding her in his arms like he was planning to do something.”

The mother of this child…