Giddens v. State

The indictment charged the appellant with the felonious assault upon an officer while in the performance of his duties, contrary to law.1 The jury found the appellant "guilty as charged" and the trial court set sentence at twenty years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The tendency of the State's evidence was that appellant and several other men were observed stealing bricks from a construction site in Auburn during the late afternoon and early evening hours of July 21, 1975, that an argument broke out and that appellant chased the others off with a gun and continued loading the car with…