Case Name: Green Franks v. The State
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1878
Citations: 4 Tex. Ct. App. 431
Docket Number: 
Parties: Green Franks v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Court of Appeals Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 431–432

Head Matter:
Green Franks v. The State.
Verdict. — Trying an information for an aggravated assault by a father upon his adult daughter, the jury returned a verdict as follows: “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty, and assess his fine at one hundred dollars.” No instruction on simple assault was given the jury. Held, that the effect of the verdict was to find the accused guilty of aggravated assault, inasmuch as that was the offense charged, and no minor offense was submitted for the determination of the jury.
Appeal from the County Court of Coryell. Tried below before the Hon. S. B. Raby, county judge.
The opinion and the head-note disclose the material facts.
Thomas Rock, for the appellant.
George McCormick, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
Ector, P. J.
The defendant was prosecuted, by information filed in the County Court of Coryell County, for an aggravated assault and battery made by him upon his daughter. Several charges of aggravation are contained in the information. There was no exception taken to it on this ground, nor was the county attorney called upon to elect upon which one of the - grounds of aggravation alleged he would go to trial.
The proof shows that the woman assaulted was over twenty-one years old. The facts proved a very aggravated case of violence upon the person of the young lady, who evidently attempted, in her testimony, to favor her parent as much as possible. The jury found the defendant guilty, and assessed his fine at $100. The effect of the verdict was to find the defendant guilty of an aggravated assault, this being the offense with which he was charged. The court gave the jury no instruction as to a simple assault.
The motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment were properly overruled.
Because we find no error in the record, the judgment of the lower court is affirmed.
Affirmed.