Case ID: tex-crim_76/html/0216-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jack Jobe v. The State.
    No. 3422.
    Decided February 10, 1915.
    Aggravated Assault—Sufficiency of the Evidence—Excessive Punishment.
    Where, upon trial of aggravated assault, the evidence showed that defendant beat his wife, the same was sufficient to sustain the conviction and a fine of $500 and two years confinement in the county jail was not excessive.
    Appeal from the County Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. Jesse M. Brown.
    Appeal from a conviction of aggravated assault; penalty, a fine of $500 and two years confinement in the county jail.
    The opinion states the case.
    Ho brief on file for appellant.
    
      C. C. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
   DAVIDSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of aggravated assault, bis punishment being assessed at a fine of $500 and two years imprisonment' in the county jail.

The State made a case with the testimony of the assaulted wife. A detailed statement of the evidence would serve no useful purpose. Appellant denied qualifiedly the assault, and especially making the bruises on her person that were shown to have been placed there by some cause. He says she ran against the door and hurt herself. She and her husband (appellant) were alone in the room. A witness on the outside heard the commotion, whipping or beating, or what she took to be such. We are of the opinion that the verdict of the jury is sustained by the evidence. The only ground of the motion for new trial is stated in the following language: “The verdict therein is excessive and unreasonably harsh,” The jury awarded appellant rather an entertaining punishment for an aggravated assault, but if he beat his wife the way she says he did it would be a little difficult for this court to say that this punishment was excessive. It was less than the maximum fixed by the statute.

There being no reversible error in the record the judgment is affirmed.

Affirmed.