Armstrong v. State

The defendant, Luellen Armstrong, appeals his conviction by jury of aggravated assault.

The trial was held without the presence of a court reporter. In the record of the trial on appeal is a stipulation entered into between the Public Defender and the State Attorney.

The defendant and two deputy sheriffs concur that upon arrival of authorities at the scene of the alleged crime, the defendant was sitting astraddle the supine body of the complaining witness with a knife in his hand. Both the defendant and the complaining witness were taken to a hospital in the squad car of the deputy sheriffs.

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