MELTON v. STATE

No. 35790.

367 S.W.2d 678 (1963)

Frank Granville MELTON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 15, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald R. Waldie, Richard S. Geiger, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., James H. Miller, Stephen Guittard and Emmett Colvin, Jr., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


McDONALD, Judge.

The offense is assault, with intent to murder with malice; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for seven years.

Appellant contends that the trial court was in error in refusing his requested charge on simple assault. If there was evidence from any source to support such a charge, it should have been given.

The appellant testified that he was riding along a Dallas street late at night with a young friend. A car pulled in...

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