SCHOTT, Chief Judge.
Defendant was convicted of aggravated battery (R.S. 14:34) on his wife and sentenced to ten years. Subsequently he was resentenced as a second offender under the Habitual Offender Law to ten years. By his sole assignment of error he contends the sentence was excessive.
On March 1, 1988 defendant got into a fight with his wife's uncle inside the couple's home. The wife tried to stop the fight and he attacked her with a screwdriver. She...
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