Tucker v. State

McMURRAY, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged, via two-count indictment, with aggravated assault (assault with a deadly weapon) and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime. The evidence adduced at a jury trial reveals that defendant pulled a knife and stabbed the victim several times during an early morning brawl in the parking lot at a Waffle House restaurant. Although defendant claims that he stabbed the victim in self-defense, an eyewitness testified that she observed defendant exit an automobile and go for the victim with a knife as the victim “backed off” from the…