Hopkins v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

Assaulting with a deadly instrument a peace officer engaged in the active discharge of his lawful duty: sentence, twenty years imprisonment.

I

Detective Robert Lee of the Huntsville Police Department went to a house to investigate a robbery. Detective Charlie Norment went along. Norment knocked on the front door and announced them as being police officers. Fortunately, for themselves, Lee and Norment stepped aside from the doorway, because two shots came through the door.

A second fusillade was later fired at Lee through the back door. It was inferable, though the evidence…