Case: STATE V. C.S.

The defendant was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon (a knife). He faced up to 15 years in State prison. The defendant was cab driver who picked up some drunken men. They got very rowdy in the cab and he asked them to get out. The men refused ton leaved the taxi and they all jumped him. He then pulled a knife in self defense cutting one of the men. At trial on cross examination, all the men in cab gave different versions of what happened outside the taxi prior to and during the stabbing. The jury found him not guilty.