OPINION
Aрpellant seeks reversal of his convictions of assault with a deadly weapon.
The facts taken in the light most favorable to upholding the convictions are as follows. Appellant’s friends Jim Smith and Ray Garmendia lived in an apartment across the street from a trailer park in which one John Letherman resided in a house trailer. Smith had been previously quаrreling with a person named Jack Davis over a dog which Smith accused Davis of stealing from him. At approximately 7:00 o’сlock in the evening of April 22, 1975, Smith and Garmendia went to Letherman’s trailer and asked him where Davis was. Letherman told them that hе did not know and asked them to leave. At about 2:30 a. m. on April 23, 1975, Smith and Garmendia returned to Letherman’s trailer, accompanied by appellant. When Letherman told them to go away, “I want to get some sleep”, an unidentified voice then replied, "[Wje’ll put you to sleep mother fucker”. Appellant, Smith and Garmendia went back' to the apartment. Appellant who was very intoxicated and angry about the dog grabbed a 30-30 rifle and went outside. Two shots were heard. Appellant came back in the apartment and said “you go look at the car. The back glass is all shattered”. In fact, there was no glass shat *222 tered or automobile hit by appellant’s shots. Instead, the two shots entered another trailеr near the Letherman trailer. One shot struck Ronald Morris, while the other shot passed through the trailer which also housed Dеnnis Cash, his wife, and two children.
The assault on the Cash family formed the basis of Count II of the indictment.
At trial, appellant’s defense was that he was sleeping in the apartment when the shooting occurred.
Appellant claims the court erred in dеnying his motion for a directed verdict since the state failed to prove that he intended to injure the occupаnts of the trailer. We do not agree. A.R.S. Sec. 13-249 provides in part:
“A person who commits an assault upon the persоn of another with a deadly weapon . . . shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison
A.R.S. Sec. 13-241A states that:
“An assault is an unlawful attempt, cоupled with a present ability, to commit a physical injury on the person of another.” (Emphasis added)
The “physical injury” in the foregoing statute is not synonymous with “bodily harm” but includes аny, wrongful act committed by means of physical force against the person of another. The term “physical injury” as usеd here is synonymous with “physical force” and in relation to assaults the two terms are used interchangeably. Cf.
People v. Bradbury,
In
State v. Andrews,
The weapon used in this case was a lever action 30-30 rifle. In order to eject the spent cartridge from the chamber and insert another round it is necessary to pull the lever down and back up again. Two spent cartridges from the rifle were found next to the apartment. There is ample evidence from which a jury could infer that the shots were deliberately fired. The evidence shows that appellant had threatened Letherman and supports an inference that he was attempting to commit a battery on Letherman, or, had intentionally fired two shots into the trailer whеre Morris and the- Cash family were sleeping. Both inferences support a conviction of assault with a deadly weapon. Appellant’s statement about shattering the glass in the automobile does not change this case into merе reckless discharge of a firearm. His belief as to what he actually hit does not operate to change his intent.
Appellant claims the trial court erred when it permitted the State to call Ramon Garmendia as a rebuttal witnеss. Although listed as a witness in the State’s case-in-chief, appellant claims Garmendia could not be called in rebuttal, that Garmendia changed his story from what he had testified to before the grand jury and that the State had an obligation under Rule 15, Rules of Criminal Procedure, to inform appellant of this new development. We do *223 not agree. The State did not have to tell thе defense that Garmendia would be a rebuttal witness. The rule was satisfied. The fact that the State intended to use him as a witness was enough to put appellant on notice that his testimony would not be favorable.
Lastly, appellant clаims the convictions should be reversed because of misconduct of the prosecutor in his closing arguments to the jury. On оne occasion the prosecutor ventured a personal opinion on the veracity of Garmendia. This is nоt permissible. We have examined the other instances of misconduct cited by appellant and find no merit in his contеntion. The jury was instructed that argument of counsel was not evidence. Misconduct alone will not require a reversal аs a new trial should not be granted to punish counsel for his misdeeds, but only when the defendant has been denied a fair trial beсause of such conduct.
State v.
Moore,
Affirmed.