Reece v. State

OPINION

DWYER, Judge.

This appeal from a conviction for committing the offense of assault and battery with punishment of confinement for eleven months and twenty-nine days plus a fine of $1,000 is the aftermath of a melee which occurred on the parking lot of the Red Lantern Tavern located in Cocke County in the evening hours of July 26, 1976.

The appellant was sitting on the hood of the victim’s car when the victim’s wife came out of the tavern and asked him to get off the automobile. When the victim, Benny Banks, came outside he and the ap*735pellant “had words” which resulted in appellant striking…