Defendant was found guilty under a second offender information of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or do great bodily harm with malice aforethought. Upon the jury’s finding of guilt, he was sentenced by the court to sixteen years imprisonment.
Sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction is not questioned. The evidence would show that the defendant, an attendant at a health club, enticed a female guest at the health club to return to the health club after closing hours, at which time he struck her on the head and attempted to strangle her. The victim escaped, received stitches to close the laceration, and was treated for various scrapes and abrasions on her body. A knife and a metal chisel with blood stains were found on the premises.
Defendant first contends that the information defectively charges him as a second offender. The information filed June 23, 1976, recited that he had previously been convicted of assault with intent to rape with malice aforethought on September 23, 1976, and imprisoned therefor on September 25, 1975. The evidence clearly showed at the time the second offense was proven by the State that the September 23, 1976 allegation of the information was erroneous. The point is controlled by
State
v.
Garner,
All concur.
