State v. Johnson

STEVENS, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of guilt and sentence based upon a plea of guilty entered to a charge which was reduced as a result of a plea bargain. The plea bargain took place after a full preliminary hearing and after a portion of the State’s case had been presented in the trial on the merits.

The appellant, Anthony Hedric Johnson, herein referred to as the defendant, and another were jointly charged by a Superior Court information with the offense of an assault with a deadly weapon “to-wit: a gun” pursuant to A.R.S. § 13-249, subsec. B, as amended in 1967. The…