Clark v. State

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

Counsel for petitioner place much stress in the charge given for the State and set out in the opinion of the Court of Appeals which in effect instructs the ju'ry the knife used by defendant (if so used) was as a matter of law a deadly weapon. Counsel are of course familiar with the limited review by this court of the opinions of the Court of Appeals. This opinion discloses only that the knife was a large one, had just been purchased, and that with this knife defendant inflicted upon the assaulted party “twelve or fourteen knife wounds.” The knife was offered in evidence…