State v. Allah

HUNTER, Judge.

Jami Tor Allah (“defendant”) appeals from judgments dated 27 August 2003 entered consistent with a jury verdict finding him guilty of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and discharging a weapon into occupied property, and a guilty plea to possession of a firearm by a felon.

The evidence tends to show that on 24 November 2002, defendant confronted Ronald Toppin (“Toppin”), the owner of Faith Transportation Company. Defendant, an independent semi-tractor operator, was seeking payment from Toppin following a vehicular accident in which…