Court Opinion

ID: 9548844
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:09:37.518156+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:19:28.624986
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Fromme, J.,
dissenting.
The defendant was charged with aggravated assault against his mother-indaw by the use of a pistol. During the altercation he not only shot his wife with this pistol but proceeded to threaten his mother-in-law. Whether the mother-in-law was in immediate apprehension of personal bodily harm was a question for the jury to decide. What a person says about his fear or apprehension long after the incident occurred is not controlling. Actions may speak louder than words. On appeal if there is any sound basis in the evidence for a reasonable inference that Mrs. Railey had fear and apprehension when the incident occurred it is our appellate duty to affirm the conviction and I would do so.
Schroeder, J., joins in the foregoing dissent.