Joplin v. State

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BRETT, Judge:

The appellant, Howard Joplin, was charged in Case No. CRF-80-301, in the District Court of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, with the crime of attempted Assault and Battery with a Dangerous Weapon. He was tried by jury and found guilty of Attempted Assault and Battery. Punishment was set at 15 days imprisonment in the county jail and a fine of fifty dollars.

The offense in this case occurred when the appellant drove a car toward another car, occupied by an attorney and the appellant’s daughter, forcing the other car off the highway. The incident was apparently…