Case Name: Louis Marshall v. The State
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1883-02-17
Citations: 13 Tex. Ct. App. 492
Docket Number: No. 1475
Parties: Louis Marshall v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Court of Appeals Reports
Volume: 13
Pages: 492–492

Head Matter:
[No. 1475.]
Louis Marshall v. The State.
Aggravated Assault—Information. —The charging part of the information is that the accused “did make an aggravated assault upon one T.,” etc. Held, insufficient to charge an aggravated assault, though sufficient to charge a simple assault.
Appeal from the County Court of Fort Bend. Tried below before the Hon. R J. Calder, County Judge.
The opinion discloses the case. The punishment imposed was a fine of one hundred dollars.
W. L. Davidson, for the appellant.
J. H. Burts, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
Hurt, J.
Louis Marshall was convicted of an aggravated assault.
The information charges that "Louis Marshall did, on or about the twenty-fifth day of February, A. D. 1882, in the said county of Fort Bend, State of Texas, make an aggravated assault upon one Thomas Tolliver," etc. For an aggravated assault this information is fatally defective.
There is no act, fact or ground of aggravation charged. (Key v. The State, 12 Texas Ct. App., 506.) It being sufficient.for simple assault (the case of Pierce v. The State, 26 Texas, 114, having been overruled), we will not dismiss the prosecution, but remand the cause for trial upon that charge.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
Opinion delivered February 17, 1883.