Court Opinion

ID: 3903446
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:33:12.692453+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:25.221655
License: Public Domain

Appellant was convicted of assault to murder and her punishment assessed at two years and six months confinement in the State penitentiary.
The only bill of exceptions in the record complains that the jury was unauthorized to assess the punishment at two and one-half years, and that a verdict must fix the punishment in years, and not a fractional part of a year. Article 1026 of the Penal Code provides the punishment to be assessed shall not be less than two years nor more than fifteen. Within these limits the jury has authority to fix the term of imprisonment at any length of time deemed advisable.
The special charge requested was fully covered by the court's main charge, and under such circumstances there was no error in refusing it.
The only other question presented is, it is insisted that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction. If the evidence for the State was believed by the jury, it makes a plain case of assault to murder.
The judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.
[Rehearing denied April 19, 1916. — Reporter.] *Page 380