Cates v. State

PIV ARNIK, Justice.

Defendant-Appellant Donald Ross Cates was convicted of class A felony Attempted Murder at the conclusion of a jury trial in the Delaware Superior Court. The trial court sentenced him to twenty years imprisonment. Appellant now directly appeals and raises the following as his sole issue:

1. whether he was denied the effective assistance of trial counsel.

The facts adduced during trial and most favorable to the State show that Appellant, a thirty-seven year old man, took a pistol from his parents' house, hid it in an automobile air filter box, and directed the vie-tim-his…