WILNER, Judge.
There are, as we shall see, a number of issues raised in this criminal appeal. The central one is whether the mere pointing of a handgun by a fleeing felon at a person in pursuit, without any evidence that the gun was loaded, or of a verbalized threat to shoot, or of any attempt to fire the weapon suffices to sustain a conviction for assault with intent to murder. We think it does not.
In the early evening of October 16, 1982, two men, both...
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