Shaw v. State

Barnes, Judge.

Melvin Shaw and a co-defendant were indicted on three counts of aggravated assault on a police officer. A jury convicted the co-defendant of all three assault charges, acquitted Shaw of one assault charge, and convicted him of two assault charges. Shaw, who was 18 and a high school junior at the time of the incident, had no previous convictions and was sentenced to serve 15 years. He appeals the aggravated assault convictions, arguing that the trial court erred in failing to charge on the lesser included offense of reckless conduct, and that insufficient evidence supported the…