State v. Hawkins

GREENE, Judge.

Defendant, Donnie Hawkins, was charged with first degree assault, but convicted of second degree assault, and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment as punishment for the crime.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the state, the evidence was that Donnie, believing that his first cousin, James “Rocky” Hawkins, was the “cause of all his problems,” shot Rocky in the right lower jaw with a .44 magnum caliber Smith and Wesson revolver, causing extensive damage to his face, teeth, tongue and jaw.

In his first point relied on, Donnie contends that the trial court committed reversible…