Court Opinion

ID: 3969053
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 10:28:08.859897+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:59.416270
License: Public Domain

Appellant was indicted for assault with intent to murder, pleaded guilty to the offense of aggravated assault, and his punishment assessed by a jury at a fine of $200 and confinement in the county jail for sixty days.
There is no complaint of the manner of the trial but the appeal is based upon the theory that the punishment is excessive. The evidence shows that appellant inflicted a wound upon the injured party named in the indictment by stabbing or cutting with a pocketknife. The evidence is quite meager as to the character of the knife and the character of the wound. It does appear, however, that with a pocketknife he stabbed the party named in the breast near the nipple, inflicting a wound about an eighth of an inch in length, striking the sixth rib on the left side of the body, ranging upward. The record discloses no extenuating circumstances except that the appellant is an aged man, and we fail to find the record in condition to authorize this court to disturb the verdict.
The order heretofore entered dismissing the appeal is set aside in response to the motion for rehearing and the judgment of the lower court is affirmed.
Affirmed.