Dixon v. State

Phipps, Judge.

Terrence Dixon was convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to serve 20 years in confinement. He claims that he did not receive a fair trial because the state introduced evidence of his aborted first trial and of his guilty plea, which was subsequently withdrawn. He also claims that his trial counsel was ineffective in numerous respects. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the evidence showed that on July 4, 1997, at about midnight, Leisha Bearden returned to her apartment complex after visiting with family out of…