Echols v. State

Clark, Judge.

Defendant was convicted under a two-count felony indictment for assault with intent to murder and for terroristic threats. Following denial of his motion for new trial, defendant appealed. The appeal is specified to be from the original judgment and sentence.

The victim of these crimes testified that he shared a prison cell with the defendant, a cohort of the defendant and several others; that defendant and his cohort twice within a matter of minutes inflicted severe beatings upon him; and that during a four-minute hiatus between the first and second beating, defendant said: "…