State v. Sampson

Since these two criminal cases involve essentially identical issues, they were consolidated on appeal. In separate trials, a jury returned a guilty verdict against each defendant. Defendant Sampson was convicted of second-degree assault; defendant Miller of grand larceny.

In the Sampson case, the trial judge signed a formal judgment and sentence, adjudging and decreeing that the defendant was guilty of assault in the second degree, in accordance with the jury verdict, and sentencing Sampson to the statutory maximum prison term. That judgment and sentence was signed, and filed in the clerk’s…