STATE v. AUSTIN

No. 1997-219-C.A.

742 A.2d 1187 (1999)

STATE v. Charles AUSTIN.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

December 20, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aaron L. Weisman, Providence, for plaintiff.

Francis S. Holbrook, II, Newport, for defendant.

Present WEISBERGER, C.J., LEDERBERG, BOURCIER, FLANDERS, and GOLDBERG, JJ.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

In the early morning hours on February 5, 1994, Charles Austin, the defendant, in a fit of jealous rage struck his former girlfriend Martha Fernandez (Fernandez), some twenty times about her head and body with an empty brandy bottle. He was arrested, charged with an assault with a dangerous weapon, tried before a Superior Court jury, and convicted. On July 19, 1996, he was sentenced to a term of fifteen years, five of which were to be...

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