State v. Courtney

CALLISTER, Justice.

The defendant, Carl Mack Courtney, was accused of the crime of assault with a deadly weapon. He appeals from a judgment of conviction entered upon the jury’s verdict of guilty.

The defendant, driving his automobile and accompanied by two young women, stopped at a stop sign at the intersection of Wall Avenue and Riverdale Road in Weber County, state of Utah. The complaining witness, Gorman W. Irwin, driving his own automobile, stopped immediately behind the defendant and waited for the defendant to go forward. The defendant started off and apparently small rocks or loose…