Clifton v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of San Augustine. Tried below before Hon. Tom C. Davis. Appeal from a conviction for assault with intent to murder; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with assault with intent to murder Bill Sublet, on the 25th day of December, 1897. The opinion spates the case.
1Opinion of the Court
HEHDERSOH, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of an assault with intent to murder, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary; hence this appeal.
There is but one assignment of error that requires notice, to wit, that the evidence does not sustain the conviction. The case is one of purely circumstantial evidence. All the testimony that can be said to tend even remotely to show that appellant was the person who fired the shot into the house where the parties were playing cards on the night of the 25th of December, 1897, as we gather from the record, is as follows, to…
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