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83 Tex. Crim. 522

204 S.W 320

Joseph v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided April 10, 1918

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1918-04-10

<p>1. —Assault to Murder—Aggravated Assault—Recognizance.</p> <p>In misdemeanor cases the recognizance must name the offense for which the conviction was had or state the penalty assessed; however, on motion for rehearing, the record being perfected, the appeal is reinstated.</p> <p>2. —Same—Excessive Punishment.</p> <p>Where appellant complained that the punishment for aggravated assault was excessive, hut the evidence sustained the conviction there was no reversible error.</p>

Decided 1918-04-10

¶1*523 ON BEHEADING.

¶2 June 5, 1918.

MORROW, Judge.

¶3 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 $300 and confinement in the county jail for sixty days.

¶4 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.

¶5 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.

¶6 Affirmed.

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