State v. Hawkins

STROUD, Judge.

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of assault on a detention facility employee inflicting serious injury and his subsequent guilty plea to attaining the status of a habitual felon. The evidence at trial established defendant and other inmates assaulted Sergeant Gary McKinney, an employee of the Marion Correction Institution, after he confiscated and disposed of contraband food items he found in the common area of a cell block. Sergeant McKinney suffered two broken teeth, a herniated disc, and had to undergo rotator cuff surgery.…