Smith v. State

Pope, Judge.

Convicted of aggravated assault for the shooting of a police officer, Smith appeals and we affirm. The evidence at trial established that on Halloween night of 1979, Smith, dressed in a plaid shirt, was driving a green pickup truck with a camper top aroiind the town of Willacoochee accompanied by his dog, a Doberman pinscher. Smith was observed by Police Chief W. H. Jewell at a liquor store and drinking at a tavern from which Smith departed in his pickup truck “at a high rate of speed.” Chief Jewell (who was off duty but driving around town in his personal car in case he was…