Herring v. State

TYSON, Judge.

Woodrow Herring was indicted, tried and convicted of “assault in the first degree” in violation of § 13A-6-20(a)(2), Code of Alabama 1975. The trial court sentenced him to twenty years’ imprisonment and fined him twenty thousand dollars, pursuant to § 13A-5-ll(a)(4), Code of Alabama 1975.

Shortly after 6:00 a. m. on June 9, 1980, appellant arrived at the home of his former wife, Nyoka Herring, to return their eleven year old son, who had spent the weekend with his father, the appellant.

Under circumstances that were in dispute at trial, an acidic liquid was either splashed or…