Williams v. State
Williams v. State
Opinion of the Court
The appellant was convicted of an aggravated assault. The information charges as the circumstance of aggravation that the alleged assault was made with a
The defendant, by his counsel, excepted to this charge, and reserved the point by a bill of exceptions, taken at the time, which is embodied in the record. The first part of this charge is erroneous, for the reason that it submits to the jury an issue not contained in the information, thereby allowing the jury to convict on proof of a cause of aggravation not averred against him. This was an error to the prejudice of the defendant. Ooney v. The State, 43 Texas, 414. Because of this error the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
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