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25 Tex. 758

State v. Murrah

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1860

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1860-07-01

Tried below before the Hon. C. A. Frazer. The indictment charged that the defendant, the appellant, “ on the fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in said county of Harrison, and in a court of justice then and there being in session, unlawfully and willfully did commit an aggravated assault in and upon Gilchrist McKay, and then and there did strike,” &c. The defendant filed a motion to set aside the indictment, because…

Decided 1860-07-01

Bell, J.

¶1We are of opinion that the court below erred in sustaining the exceptions to the indictment. The indictment alleges all that is necessary to be alleged in an indictment for an aggravated assault and battery. Article 488 of the Penal Code says that an assault or battery becomes aggravated when committed in a court of justice. This indictment charges that the assault was unlawfully and willfully committed in a court of justice then and there being in session.” We think this is sufficient. It is not necessary to allege that the court was lawfully in session, or to specify what court it was in. which the offence was committed, or that it was a court of any particular grade.

¶2Reversed and remanded.

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