Case Name: Paul Carpenter v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1925-05-27
Citations: 100 Tex. Crim. 258
Docket Number: No. 9129
Parties: Paul Carpenter v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 100
Pages: 258–258

Head Matter:
Paul Carpenter v. The State.
No. 9129.
Delivered May 27, 1925.
Assault to Murder- — Evidence Held Sufficient.
There are no complaints on the rulings of the trial court preserved by bills of exception. No fundamental error has been perceived. While the extreme penalty was inflicted, the evidence supports the verdict, and the punishment was, under the law, within the discretion of the jury, and the judgment is affirmed.
Appeal from the Criminal District Court No. 2 of Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. Chas. A. Pippen, Judge.
Appeal from a conviction of an assault to murder; penalty, fifteen years in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
No brief filed for appellant.
Tom Garrard, State’s Attorney, and Grover C. Morris, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Presiding Judge. —
The offense is assault with intent to murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of fifteen years.
According to the State's testimony, after fifteen years of married life, the appellant and his wife, Kate Carpenter, were divorced. He afterwards married another woman. Appellant went to her house and while there made an unprovoked attack upon her, shooting her five times.
Appellant testified in his own behalf and apparently advanced the theory that his penalty should be mitigated on account of the use of intoxicating liquor. This theory was submitted to the jury in a manner against which no criticism is addressed. There are no complaints of'the rulings on the trial preserved by bills of exception. No fundamental error has been perceived. The evidence supports the verdict and the punishment inflicted was under the law within the discretion of the jury.
Finding no error, the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.