Case Name: DAVIS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1915-12-15
Citations: 180 S.W. 1084
Docket Number: No. 3865
Parties: DAVIS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 180
Pages: 1084–1085

Head Matter:
DAVIS v. STATE.
(No. 3865.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Dec. 15. 1915.)
Assault and Batteey <&wkey;>91 — Peosecution—■ Evidence — Sufficiency.
In a prosecution for assault, evidence held to warrant conviction.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Assault and Battery, Cent. Dig. § 136; Dec. Dig. &wkey;>91.]
Appeal from Panola County Court; George Harkrider, Judge.
Lem Davis was convicted of assault, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
J. G. Woolworth and R. W. Priest, both of Carthage, for appellant. C. C. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
HARPER, J.
Appellant was convicted of an assault, and fined $5, from which judgment he prosecutes this appeal.
There is one assignment of error, and that is the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict, and the court should have instructed the jury to acquit. Of course, if the jury had believed the testimony of appellant and his witnesses, there was no assault. But the state's witness testified:
"My name is Floyd Holland. I live in Carthage. I was at the house of Stella Fletcher on the night of the 5th of August, this year, and was sitting on the front gallery of the house. Soon after I went to Stella's house, Stella asked Preacher Anderson to go with Minnie Bowman to get a bucket of water. They both left the house, and in a few minutes both came running back and left Stella's house. Immediately after that the defendant came running from around the house, and that just as the defendant started to get on the gallery he said, 'God damn you, I will kill you.' The defendant ran across the gallery and got hold of me, and we scuffled on the gallery for quite a while, and he tore my shirt nearly off, and I jerked from him, jumped off the gallery, and ran, and the defendant ran after me. As I jerked loose, I got cut here on my finger."
If the jury believed this testimony, and evidently they did do so, it supports the verdict. The trial court must have also accepted it as true, or he would have granted a new trial, and we, at this distance, cannot say the state's witness is unworthy of belief.
The judgment is affirmed.
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