Brown v. State

GUTHRIE, Justice, Retired.

Appellant was convicted of a crime of assault with a dangerous weapon in violation of § 6-70B, W.S.1957, 1975 Cum.Supp. (now § 6-4-506(b), W.S.1977). This appeal entails the review of two claimed instructional errors, both of which require consideration for the first time of the effect of the amendment enacted by the legislature in 1975, being Chapter 70, S.L. of Wyoming 1975. This amendment classified an unloaded firearm as a dangerous weapon as a matter of law.

The two areas in which appellant claims error involve a claim that the court failed to correctly state the…