State v. Ludwig

The defendant, Craig Ludwig, appeals from a judgment based upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of assault in the second degree, with a special verdict that he was armed with a deadly weapon. Of the defendant's eight assignments of error, the primary one relates to *51the trial court's refusal to exclude evidence of the defendant's prior conviction. We decline the invitation to speculate on possible Supreme Court resolution of that issue and affirm.

The defendant had known Georgia Upton for only several days when she picked him up hitchhiking along a public highway. She related to him that she…