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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 10:37:21+00:00

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA, Defendant in Error.
H.G. Tolbert, Watonga, for plaintiff in error.
Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., Sam H. Lattimore, Asst. Atty. Gen., Earl E. Goerke, County Atty., Watonga, for defendant in error.
This is an appeal brought by Jimmy Bald Eagle from a conviction for assault with a dangerous weapon, 21 O.S.A. § 645, allegedly committed on May 27, 1959. He was charged by information with said crime in the District Court of Blaine County, Oklahoma, as a second and subsequent offender, the prior offenses being admitted; upon conviction the jury fixed the defendant’s punishment at ten years in the penitentiary, 21 O.S.A. § 51. Judgment and sentence was entered accordingly.
The defendant contends that a beer bottle is not per se a dangerous instrument and no reference is made of the use thereof which would bring it within the definition of such an instrument. We are of the opinion that a beer bottle, as such, is not a dangerous instrument, but may become so by the use made thereof. The foregoing language is sufficiently clear to define such an unlawful use of the beer bottle herein, as to bring it within the purview of a dangerous weapon. We have defined that a claw hammer, although not a dangerous instrument per se, may become such by the use made of it. See Tipler v. State, 78 Okl.Cr. 85, 143 P.2d 829; and Beck v. State, 73 Okl.Cr. 229, 119 P.2d 865, 868. Clark v. State, 11 Okl.Cr. 494, 148 P. 676; and Strahan v. State, Okl.Cr., 284 P.2d 744, all defining such instruments as leather strap, a chair, a stick, a clock, an iron rod, and an automobile window crank, as dangerous instruments by the use made of them. We do not see how the information could have better stated the use made of the beer bottle than is alleged in this information. Verbosity would have aided in no particular. Moreover, the defendant did not demur to the information and thereby waived all defects not jurisdictional. Clark v. State, supra. This point is wholly without merit. The defendant next complains that the state did not introduce the beer bottle in evidence. The defendant’s own testimony disclosed that he hit the victim on the head with the beer bottle and “busted it”, hence, the failure under these conditions to offer the bottle in evidence is clearly explained. This point is without merit.
The information and the evidence in support thereof are entirely sufficient to support the conviction.
Hamilton v. State, supra. The sentence is accordingly reduced to six years and as so modified the same is affirmed.
POWELL, P.J., and NIX, J., concur.

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