Court Opinion

ID: 3970429
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 10:29:15.337473+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:14:36.958783
License: Public Domain

Appellant was convicted of aggravated assault, his punishment being assessed at one year and six months imprisonment in the county jail.
The contention mainly relied upon for reversal is that the court should have instructed the jury to acquit because the evidence showed an assault with intent to murder instead of aggravated assault, and that the facts showed only an assault with intent to commit murder. This is presented in several ways. We can not agree with appellant's contention on this proposition. The prosecuting officers had all the *Page 630 
facts before them and took the affidavit as a basis for the information charging aggravated assault. The evidence doubtless would justify a verdict for assault to murder had appellant been tried upon that theory, but it occurs to us under the authorities and law as understood that, while the facts might have justified a higher conviction, it would not be reversible error for the State to carve out an inferior degree of an offense, if it was included within the possible higher offense, and that the conviction for the offense carved could be pleaded in bar of a prosecution for the higher offense, if the higher offense was complete at the time. The authorities sustain this proposition. Among other cases we refer to Butler v. State, 48 Tex. Crim. 529. This is practically the only question in the case.
The judgment will be affirmed.
Affirmed.