State v. Dowdle

HUNTER, Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle and assault with a deadly weapon. The trial court consolidated the two offenses for judgment and sentenced him to an active prison term of thirty-four to fifty months. Defendant filed timely notice of appeal.

The State's evidence tended to show that April Denise Miller ("Miller") went to defendant's house to dry some clothes at 7:00 p.m. on 2 September 2002. Miller, who had been dating defendant for approximately six months at the time, brought her four children with her. More than twenty people were…