Trounce v. State

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

Appellant Peter Trounce, together with five codefendants, was indicted for the separate offenses of assault with a dangerous weapon and malicious destruction of personal property. After trial by jury, Trounce was found guilty of assault with a dangerous weapon but was acquitted of the malicious destruction of personal property count. Trounce was thereafter sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with one and one-half years suspended. Trounce now appeals from this conviction.

In this appeal Trounce urges two specifications of error. First, Trounce contends that the trial…