State v. Weaver

REINHARD, Judge.

Defendant was charged in a two-count information with second degree murder and assault with intent to kill with malice aforethought. Trial by jury resulted in a verdict of guilty on the assault charge and a mistrial on the murder charge. The jury assessed punishment at. ten years and the court entered judgment accordingly.

The victims of this shooting incident were Mark Baldwin and Terence Shanks. Baldwin, the victim of the assault, testified that on November 20, 1976, he and Shanks, the deceased, were proceeding down a walkway in the Darst-Webbe Housing Complex when the…