PANAMA CITY, Fla. -- A man who once shouted "cuckoo" and then dropped his pants to moon a jury has been convicted of attacking his girlfriend with a boxcutter. Cornell Jackson, 31, could face up to 33 years in prison when sentenced Tuesday. That's the penalty he received after two earlier trials in which convictions were reversed because he had not received formal competency hearings. Jackson's lawyers argued he was legally insane when, in a jealous rage over perceived attention that Kisha Smith had paid to another man, he slashed her on Jan. 21 and 22, 2000. The second attack came after she returned home from getting her initial wound stitched at a hospital. Jackson testified that he battles demons regularly with "Jesus and Michael Archangel." I battle trolls regularly with "the Rantburg regulars."
He refused to attend his first trial and was removed from his second in 2003 after he bared his buttocks. Jackson was ruled competent in April, and a jury convicted him Friday of aggravated battery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and armed burglary.