Hall v. State

402 S.W.2d 752 (1966)

Frank HALL, Jr., Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 39115.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 20, 1966.

Rehearing Denied May 25, 1966.

Gerald Weatherly (appointed on appeal only), Charles R. Wheeler, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Doug Crouch, Dist. Atty., Truman Power, Asst. Dist. Atty., Fort Worth, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

McDONALD, Presiding Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to murder; the punishment, 14 years in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The evidence shows that all the witnesses to the assault had spent much of…