Merritt v. State

Terry Crabtree, Judge.

The appellant was charged with two counts of aggravated assault, but he was found guilty in a jury trial of the lesser-included offenses of first-degree assault for which he was sentenced to concurrent terms of thirty days in jail and fined $1,000. On appeal, he argues that the trial court erred in giving self-defense instructions for the jury to consider with regard to aggravated assault but not to any of the lesser-included offenses. We find no reversible error and affirm.

The charges levied against appellant arose from an incident that occurred on July 24, 2001, in…