Knight v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the County Court of Young County, of aggravated assault, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $100, and confinement in the county jail for sixty days.

The injured party—one J. W. Seddon—was struck on the head by a pitchfork, in the hands of appellant. An examination of the record does not disclose that anything passed between the two men prior to the time they met, and appellant struck without any words or other matter between them. No predicate was laid for any claim of justification for said assault.

A gash some four inches in length was cut to the…