Wainwright v. State

Beasley, Presiding Judge.

Wainwright was convicted of six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. OCGA § 16-5-21 (a) (2). He was sentenced as a recidivist, under OCGA § 17-10-7 (a), to six concurrent twenty-year terms, to serve fourteen years in prison and six years on probation.

The offenses were committed in the early morning hours on February 2, 1992. Wainwright, his friend Stephens, and another friend arrived at a local establishment shortly before closing time. Bobby Ingram and a number of his relatives and friends were there playing pool and drinking. Ingram suggested that his…