Vance v. State

DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

The defendant, Major Vance, was charged in an information with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a pistol. Despite ample evidence to sustain these charges, the jury returned a verdict finding the defendant guilty on each count of the lesser-included offense of improper exhibition of a dangerous weapon, a misdemeanor of the first degree. The trial court thereupon placed the defendant on probation for one year on each count, the terms of probation to run consecutively. The order of probation recited as a special condition that the defendant was to…