State v. Williams

MICHAEL A. WOLFF, Judge.

This appeal raises issues of the requisite mental state for charging armed criminal action.

Following his conviction on one count each of second-degree assault and armed criminal action, Paul Williams challenges the sufficiency of the amended information, claiming that the assault charge failed to allege that he engaged in a substantial step toward the commission of the assault and that the armed criminal action charge omitted the mental culpability requirement. He contends that the evidence was insufficient on the armed criminal action count because there was no…