United States v. Pryor

NEWTON, Senior Judge:

Drink, a pool game and refusal to give away a dime provide the bizarre setting for this case. Lance Corporal J was playing an evening game of pool. The appellant asked J to give him a dime. J refused. The appellant pushed J against a wall and slapped him. Appellant then left the scene, on departure obtaining the butt end of a pool stick. He went outside and attacked three innocent, uninvolved bystanders, striking each at least once with the cue. The latter three attacks were totally unprovoked and unanticipated by the victims. In fact, each victim was ignorant of the…