Collier v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Nathaniel Collier, was charged with and tried for *381obstruction of a law enforcement officer, simple battery, aggravated assault (with a steak knife), aggravated assault (with a hot clothing iron), and aggravated battery (by disfiguring the victim with a hot clothing iron). He was convicted only of aggravated battery.

All of the charges stemmed from an altercation between Collier and his live-in girl friend, in which Collier himself was stabbed three or four times. During the fight, the victim was burned when Collier applied a hot iron to her neck and…