Stevens v. State

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

After trial by jury, appellant Walter Stevens was found guilty of the crime of assault with a dangerous weapon and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment. In this appeal, appellant advances several grounds for reversal of his conviction and also attacks as excessive the court’s imposition of the maximum sentence for the crime of assault with a dangerous weapon.

We first turn to appellant’s assertion that there is insufficient evidence in the record to support a guilty verdict. The determinative events took place on an August 1971 evening on South Franklin Street…