Powell v. State

OPINION

DAVID GAULTNEY, Justice.

Lorenzo Powell was charged with assaulting a guard at a state prison unit. The jury heard evidence that while alone in the dayroom in administrative segregation, 1 he reached through the bars and cut a correctional officer on the face with a razor or other sharp object. The injuries required sixty-five stitches. The jury convicted Powell of aggravated assault on a public servant and, after hearing evidence of an assault on a guard and of four prior felonies (including aggravated robbery of an elderly person), assessed a punishment of sixty-five years in prison.…