State v. Hood

The defendant appeals from a sentence of ten years for aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. The assault occurred in conjunction with an escape from the Payette County jail in which the defendant and two other inmates threatened a deputy sheriff with the sharpened handle of a spoon and locked him in a cell and escaped from the jail.

The defendant pleaded guilty to the aggravated assault charge, and the court ordered a presentence investigation. The presentence investigation indicated that the defendant, eighteen years of age at the time of the assault, had a rather substantial…