Baker v. State

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for aggravated assault. Appellant, Albert Frank Baker, and the prosecuting witness had been acquainted for about ten years and had previously had trouble of a non-violent nature. On March 15, 1962, they met inadvertently at a place of business in Lincoln, Arkansas. A conversation ensued during which the prosecuting witness armed himself with a piece of a grain drill and appellant armed himself with a mowing-machine sickle guard. Both left the building by the front door and a fight ensued in which the prosecuting witness used a…