Case Name: Jesse Royston v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1917-05-23
Citations: 81 Tex. Crim. 514
Docket Number: No. 4491
Parties: Jesse Royston v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 81
Pages: 514–516

Head Matter:
Jesse Royston v. The State.
No. 4491.
Decided May 23, 1917.
Rehearing granted June 20, 1917.
Aggravated Assault — Information—Insufficiency of the Evidence.
Where the information alleged an aggravated assault to 'have been committed with a deadly weapon, and also serious bodily injury and the proof was insufficient to sustain the allegation, the conviction could not be sustained. Prendergast, Judge, dissenting.
Appeal from the County Court of Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. Helson Lytle.
Appeal from a conviction of aggravated assault; penalty, a fine of twenty-five dollars and sixty days confinement in the county jail.
The opinion states the case.
A. L. Hatchett and L. W. Greenly, for appellant.
E. B. Hendricks, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of aggravated assault by the judge who tried the case, a jury having been waived. His punishment was assessed at a fine of $25 and sixty days imprisonment in the county jail.
The complaint and information contain two counts, one charging the assault to have been committed with a rock, which was a deadly weapon; the other that the assault was aggravated by reason of the fact it produced serious bodily injury. There is nothing to indicate that the rock was a deadly weapon, except the fact that defendant, under the State's view, knocked' the assaulted party down twice, hitting him in the back of the head the first time, and upon his getting up defendant struck him again and at this time he had a rock in his hand. The inference may be deduced that both blows were inflicted by the rock. The only evidence in regard to the seriousness of the wound was the testimony of the assaulted party* wherein he states that he was laid up or suffered from the wound for a couple of weeks. This is rather meager testimony to show that the assault was of a serious nature, but it may have been sufficient under the circumstances to have justified the court reaching the conclusion that serious bodily injury was inflicted. Taking this view of the matter the judgment will be affirmed.
Affirmed.