State v. Safrit

CAMPBELL, Judge.

On 12 January 1998, Howard Eugene Safrit (“defendant”) was indicted on one count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury (“97 CRS 15635”), and one count of robbery with a dangerous weapon (“97 CRS 15636”), arising from an altercation with Tyrone Miller that occurred in the early morning hours of 15 November 1997. On 18 May 1998, defendant was charged in a separate indictment (“98 CRS 6730”) with being a violent habitual felon, based on alleged prior convictions of armed robbery in 1973, and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious…