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Show Sentencing FARMINGTON Sentencing Sen-tencing has been set for Dec. 16 for a 39-year-old former Bountiful man who was convicted con-victed of attempted criminal homicide when he allegedly shot at two North Salt Lake police officers investigating a disturbance. SECOND DISTRICT Judge Thornley K. Swan set the date for sentencing to follow a psychiatric examination of the defendant. George William Pippy. who held more than 25 law enforcement officers at bay at his family home, 3008 South 625 West, Bountiful, last August. Judge Swan declared the guilty verdict after hearing testimony tes-timony from the defendant and several witnesses, including North Salt Lake Sgt. Jim A. Erickson and Officer Dan Christen. THE DEFENDANT told the judge at the non-jury trial that he (Pippy) "didn't intend to kill anyone but himself. During the eight-hour vigil during which time several police .officers surrounded the Pippy home while trying to talk the defendant into giving himself up. Finally at about 1 a.m., two Davis County sheriff deputies Sgt. J.R. Hunt and K.D. Simpson managed to enter the home and found Pippy asleep on the kitchen floor. JUDGE SWAN told the defendant de-fendant that he (Pippy) should be commended for his success in controlling an alcohol problem prob-lem since the incident but "circumstances "cir-cumstances of the incident as described in testimony by several sev-eral witnesses and the serious se-rious nature of the offense made it necessary to convict the defendant." The judge noted that he (the court) could not find a justifiable justifi-able explanation for one shot being fired only one foot above an officer's head and three or four more shots fired in the same direction of two Dolice officers. DEFENSE ATTY. Lorin Martin argued that Pippy did not see the police officers because be-cause rose bushes blocked his vision. Atty . Martin asked that the charge be reduced to a lesser les-ser charge of aggravated assault or brandishing a weapon. However, Judge Swan said that he could not accept this theory and had no other choice but to find the defendant guilty of attempted homicide, grb |
