Lockwood v. State

Eldridge, Judge.

Following the Spalding County Superior Court’s refusal to accept his plea of guilty as improvidently tendered, Wilmer C. Lockwood was convicted by a jury of a single count of aggravated assault and sentenced to serve ten years in prison, followed by ten years probation. Lockwood appeals from the denial of his motion for new trial, as amended, challenging the sufficiency of evidence, the effectiveness of counsel, and the superior court’s denial of his request for a pre sentence report as an abuse of discretion. Finding the evidence sufficient, no ineffectiveness of counsel, and…