Priola v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction, of aggravated assault and battery (IC 1971, 35-13-8-1, being Burns § 10-410) after a trial by jury in the Marion Criminal Court, Judge John T. Davis presiding. Appellant was sentenced to one to five years at the Indiana Reformatory and fined $1000.00. He bases his appeal on the contention that the evidence at trial was insufficient to sustain the conviction.

Testimony at trial showed that on the night of August 29, 1969, a party was held at an apartment rented by Sharon Thompson and three other young women. There were about thirty or thirty-five people at…