State v. Terry

HUNTER, Judge.

Thomas Alexander Terry ("defendant") appeals his conviction for assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. Finding no error, we affirm the trial court's judgment.

Complainant Laynerd Dever Staley ("Staley") testified that he had known defendant "[b]asically all of his life." In the summer of 2002, defendant asked Staley to hold onto defendant's nine millimeter handgun. After taking custody of the gun, Staley sold it without defendant's permission. When defendant subsequently asked him to return the gun on five or six occasions, Staley "avoid[ed] taking it to him." On…