Chisom v. State
Decision Date | 16 June 1915 |
Docket Number | (No. 3618.) |
Citation | 179 S.W. 103 |
Parties | CHISOM v. STATE. |
Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
Appeal from Harris County Court, at Law; C. C. Wren, Judge.
Wash Chisom was convicted of aggravated assault, and he appeals. Affirmed.
Meek & Kahn, of Houston, for appellant. John H. Crooker, Cr. Dist. Atty., and E. T. Branch, both of Houston, and C. C. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
Appellant was charged by information with "unlawfully making an aggravated assault and battery upon the person of Oscar P. Steckel, with a weapon then and there calculated to inflict serious bodily injury, to wit, knucks, and by the use of said weapon did then and there inflict serious bodily injury to the said Oscar P. Steckel," etc. The Assistant Attorney General and Mr. E. T. Branch have filed a brief, which in our opinion correctly disposes of each question presented, and we therefore adopt the brief as the opinion of the court:
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