Cannon v. State

Eldridge, Judge.

Appellant appeals his conviction for aggravated assault following a jury trial. Held:

1. In the first enumeration of error, appellant asserts that the evidencé presented at trial was insufficient as a matter of law to find him guilty of aggravated assault. OCGA § 16-5-20 (a) defines the crime of assault as when a person “either: (1) [ajttempts to commit a violent injury to the person of another; or (2) [cjommits an act which places another in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury.” Further, OCGA § 16-5-21 (a) (2) defines aggravated assault as an…