People v. Sharp

Defendant was involved in an altercation with Ben Robinson on June 1, 1951. He was charged with felonious assault with a deadly weapon, 1 a wooden table leg. At commencement of trial on July 2, 1951, a second count to the information was added, charging aggravated assault, a misdemeanor. 2 Thereupon, the defendant pled guilty to the misdemeanor of aggravated assault, and on July 16, 1951, was sentenced to serve 10 months to 1 year in prison. Subsequently, on August 29, 1951, Ben Robinson died as the result of defendant’s attack, the same incident that was the basis of the above assáult…