State v. Lopez

This is an appeal by defendant-appellant, Daniel H. Lopez, from a judgement of the District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District, Gallatin County, the Honorable W.W. Lessley presiding, rendered upon a jury verdict convicting him of aggravated assault and attempted theft.

The defendant was sentenced to the state prison for twenty years on aggravated assault and ten years on attempted theft, the sentences to run concurrently. The District Court designated defendant a dangerous offender.

According to both defendant Lopez and the victim, Stephen A. Wiscombe, there was an early morning…