Jennings v. State

OPINION

CORNISH, Judge:

Douglas Jennings was convicted in Le-Flore County District Court Case No. CRF-79-216 of Feloniously Pointing a Weapon. He was sentenced to three (3) years’ imprisonment.

He first urges reversal on the grounds that the State failed to sustain its burden of proof by not showing that the pistol was capable of discharging a lethal projectile. With this contention we cannot agree. Title 21 O.S.1971, § 1289.16 in pertinent part provides it is unlawful for any person to willfully or without lawful cause to point a pistol, whether loaded or not, at any person. Within the same…