Case Name: Herman Douglas v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-03-16
Citations: 89 Tex. Crim. 39
Docket Number: No. 6158
Parties: Herman Douglas v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 89
Pages: 39–39

Head Matter:
Herman Douglas v. The State.
No. 6158.
Decided March 16, 1921.
Assault With Intent to Murder—Sufficiency of the Evidence.
Where, upon trial of assault with intent to murder, the evidence supported the conviction under a proper charge of the court, there was no reversible error.
Appeal from the District Court of McLennan. Tried below before the Honorable Richard I. Munroe.
Appeal from a conviction of assault with intent to murder; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
No brief on file for appellant.
R. H. Hamilton, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the District Court of McLennan County of the offense of assault with intent to murder, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years.
There appears before us no bills of exceptions to the introduction of any evidence, no complaint of the indictment, no exception to the charge of the court, and but one question is presented, namely: the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict. We have examined same and have concluded that there is evidence sufficient to justify the jury in finding appellant guilty. There appears no question but that two parties acted together in the assault upon the prosecuting witness, and that more than one of them cut him with some sharp instrument. Said witness, after testifying to the trouble he was having with one Mucker, swore that another negro cut him in the back of the neck and one of the two cut him in the front of the neck and also three times in the hip. The trial court submitted fully the law of assault to murder and also aggravated assault, and told the jury if they had any doubt as to the guilt of appellant of assault to murder, they might find him guilty of aggravated assault. The jury within their province have settled these questions adversely to appellant.
Finding no error in the record, the judgment will be affirmed.
Affirmed.