State v. Black

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

A jury found defendant ex-convict Lin-dell Black guilty of assaulting victim Ms. Donna Jarvis. The court sentenced him to one year in jail and a $100 fine.

For two or three months the couple had lived together in her rural home. She was regularly employed at a factory; he was unemployed; he appropriated her car and kept the keys. On November 5, 1983 because of defendant’s repeated physical abuse Ms. Jarvis tried to move out of her home. Defendant intercepted her, got her into her car and began threatening her. Then the charged assault. Ms. Jarvis testified: Defendant…