Scott v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged in a two-count indictment with aggravated assault in that he “did unlawfully make an assault upon the person of [the victim] with a certain knife, a deadly weapon, by cutting him . . .” (Count 1) and for theft by taking (Count 2). The evidence adduced at a jury trial reveals the following: During the afternoon of June 9, 1991, the victim chased the defendant and a confederate as the suspects fled a suspected crime scene. As the victim reached inside the suspects’ get-away vehicle, the defendant stabbed the victim several times with a knife or a…