James v. State

The appellant was indicted for an assault with intent to murder, and was convicted of an aggravated assault and battery. The only question presented by the record or the briefs of counsel, which requires notice here, is as to the sufficiency of the indictment in describing the offense charged, and this question is most definitely settled in the affirmative in Wharton’s American Criminal Law, 467, and in the case of The State v. Croft, 15 Texas, 576, and also in the case of The State v. Killough, 32 Texas, 78.

And the only remaining question suggestive of a doubt, is as to the sufficiency of…