Dixon v. State

Bell, Chief Judge.

1. The defendant, jointly indicted with two other individuals, was convicted of two counts of assault with intent to murder by stabbing two victims with a knife. The State’s evidence showed as to Count 1 that the defendant actually inflicted the wounds with a knife, whereas in Count 2, one of his co-actors wounded the victim and the defendant was a conspirator as to this offense. The court charged the jury on the law of conspiracy but did not particularly tailor this portion of the instructions as applying only to Count 2. This failure is enumerated as error as *191being…