JAMES, J.
Duane Wayne Rasmussen and Michael James Sarrett were jointly charged with the crime of assault in the first degree. They waived a jury trial and both were convicted. Each has separately appealed.
The pivotal question was whether Sarrett fired a pistol at two police officers who had stopped the car which Rasmussen drove with Sarrett as a passenger. Although the defendants admitted that there were two pistols in the car,
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