State v. Beckett

SPINDEN, Presiding Judge.

Richard Lee Beckett appeals his conviction, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree in connection with the beating of Debra Otte on August 22, 1991. Beckett complains that Otte’s testimony against him was so self-contradictory that it cannot support the jury’s verdict. We affirm.

Considering the evidence in a light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, the state established that Beckett brutally beat Otte at his apartment on August 22, 1991. The two had drunk alcoholic beverages and ingested cocaine all night on August 21 and into the morning. On August 22,…