GRIFFIN, J.
The sole issue in this case is whether the knife used by appellant to assault and injure his victim by slashing his eye could not, as a matter of law, qualify as a deadly weapon in a prosecution for aggravated battery. The defendant characterizes the knife as a "pocketknife." The defendant asserts a pocketknife can never be a deadly weapon; the State says anything can be a deadly weapon if used in a way likely to produce great bodily harm. The defendant...
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