Levesque v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Robert Paul Levesque, was tried and convicted of aggravated assault and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He appeals only the conviction for aggravated assault, and the sole enumeration of error concerns the trial court’s apparent slip of the tongue in advising the jury that the State “is not required to prove the guilt of the defendant beyond all reasonable doubt.”

As an informative gesture, the trial court made a lengthy preevidentiary statement to the jury, during which the court essentially gave several standard jury instructions. The trial…