Coston v. State

James R. Cooper, Judge.

In this criminal case, the appellant was convicted by a jury of first degree battery and manufacturing marijuana with intent to deliver. He was sentenced to five and ten years respectively, with the sentences to run consecutively. From that decision, comes this appeal.

On September 14,1982, Britt Coleman received a shotgun blast to the face in rural Clark County. Coleman alleged that at the time he was shot, he and the appellant were harvesting marijuana which they had been growing. Coleman was allegedly ambushed and shot by a close friend of the appellant, Mark Kaufman,…