State v. Knight

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of two of three counts of aggravated assault and was sentenced by the trial court on one of the two counts to a term of 10 years in prison. The basic issue raised by defendant’s appeal from judgment of conviction is whether defendant is entitled to a new trial on the ground of improper joinder of offenses for trial. We hold that he is not, and affirm.

The three charges arose from two assaults by defendant on a woman with whom he was staying, the first assault late in the afternoon of February 7, 1976, the second about 12 hours later, early on…