State v. Cumbo

SCRUGGS, Justice.

The parties will be referred to as plaintiff and defendant as they appeared in the lower court.

James Edward Cumbo, defendant, was tried and convicted by a jury for the crime of assault with a deadly weapon in violation of A.R.S. § 13-249. A sentence of eight to ten years was imposed. Defendant appealed from the judgment and sentence.

Defendant has assigned six errors of the trial court. We will consider the first four together since they raise the same issue, to-wit: whether it was error for the trial court to allow the trial to proceed in the absence of the defendant. By the…