Carroll v. State

PERKINS, Senior District Judge.

In 1986 Anthony Carroll was accused of threatening a police officer with a butcher knife. He was charged with the crime of going armed with intent. At his jury trial for that crime, witness Sandy LuGrain testified Carroll was intoxicated at the time of the crime but appeared to know what he was doing.

A jury found Carroll guilty of going armed with intent. After this verdict was rendered, but before the entry of judgment, witness LuGrain gave a statement recanting her opinion that Carroll had known what he was doing at the time of the crime. She now expressed the…