Washington v. State

BRETT, Judge:

This is an appeal brought by Melvin Washington, alias Jimbo Lee, from a judgment and sentence rendered against him by the district court of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, on September 23, 1965.

Defendant was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. The jury found him guilty, and fixed his punishment at ten years confinement in the State Penitentiary. Title 21 Okl.St.Ann. § 652 provides the maximum penalty for the crime to be twenty years imprisonment.

It was alleged and sufficiently proved to the jury that on May 5, 1965 defendant drove his 1958 Oldsmobile automobile…