Brian S. Price was convicted of aggravated assault. He enumerates five errors on appeal.
This case arose in the evening after the victim, Price’s wife, took the keys to his car to prevent him from driving drunk. She left with the keys and stayed away all night, drinking coffee in a gas station until she reported for work the next morning. After she arrived at work, Price came in, still intoxicated, wanting his keys. At that point, the victim telephoned the police. When she refused to relinquish the *55 keys, he threw her to the ground, hit her in the face, and repeatedly kicked her in the back and stomach. Price left as the police arrived, but was apprehended and arrested. Held:
1. The record refutes Price’s contention that the evidence was insufficient to sustain his conviction because the State introduced no evidence showing that the victim sustained serious bodily injury. The victim testified that Price pushed her down and hit her in the face. A paramedic who drove her to the hospital testified that the victim “had massive damage to the face, [her] left eye was swollen, [and] she had a large hematoma to the back of her head.” The victim told the paramedic that her husband had kicked her several times in the stomach and the back and hit her on the back of the head with a telephone. Photographs and other witnesses corroborated the extent of the victim’s injuries. This evidence is sufficient to support the verdict.
Jackson v. Virginia,
In this same enumeration, Price also appears to argue that his indictment was fatally flawed because it failed to (1) allege the manner in which each of the three weapons mentioned therein delivered each injury or (2) characterize those weapons as deadly.
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Our law prohibits defendants from enlarging the scope of their enumerations in their briefs.
Guest v. State,
2. Price maintains that the trial court’s recharge on aggravated assault improperly defined the offense as “an attempt to commit a violent injury to the person of another.”
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The record shows that after the recharge, the trial court inquired whether counsel had any exceptions. Defense counsel stated, “None from the defendant.” A party
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cannot acquiesce to an error and then assert it on appeal.
Brooks v. State,
3. Price argues that the trial court erred by failing to define deadly weapon in its charge or inform the jury that hands, feet, and a telephone may or may not be deadly weapons, depending upon their use. Price’s failure to request this charge in writing precludes his argument.
Grice v. State,
4. Price claims the trial court erred in reading the indictment to the jury without including an allegation that deadly weapons were involved. The indictment did not charge the deadly weapons language of OCGA § 16-5-21, and such was not required.
Jay,
We observe that the trial court’s reading of the indictment also erroneously omitted language describing the weapons as “when used offensively likely to result in serious bodily injury.” But Price does not argue that this omission was error. Moreover, the evidence is overwhelming, the indictment was sent into the deliberations, and the court instructed the jury that the official charge they should consider was in the indictment. See
Favors v. State,
5. Price maintains his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object and reserve objections to the erroneous recharge on aggravated assault. See Division 2. To establish ineffectiveness, a defendant must show that trial counsel’s performance was deficient and the deficiency caused sufficient prejudice to deprive him of a fair trial.
Earnest v. State,
Judgment affirmed.
Notes
The indictment charged Price with striking and kicking the victim “with his hands and feet and a telephone receiver, which when used offensively . . . [was] likely to result in serious bodily injury.”
In an apparent slip of the tongue, the trial court characterized assault as aggravated assault. The court charged the jury as follows:
Aggravated assault is an attempt to commit a violent injury to the person of another, an act which places another person in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury. A person commits the offense of aggravated assault when that person assaults another person with any object which, when used offensively against a person, is likely to result in serious bodily injury.