A state representative from Charleston is charged with assault with intent to kill, and his legal counsel is a fellow state lawmaker.

But Rep. John Graham Altman says the charges against state represtentive Wallace Scarborough are bogus.

"That's garbage,” Alltman says. “He's charged with assault with intent to kill under the common law— the affidavits themselves point out there’s no crime being committed."

Scarborough appeared in bond court Sunday morning. He's charged with assault with intent to kill. According to Altman, Scarborough was house sitting for his parents in the Crescent subdivision of Charleston. That’s when two S. C. Wlectric and Gas employees who were working on power lines in the rear of the home startled him.

“Here come some flash light beams coming through the windows he's in the dining room working on some paperwork he picks up a pistol there’s some people in his backyard,” Altman says.

According to the police report, the SCE&G employees told Scarborough who they were, but when Scarborough walked back towards the house, a single shot was fired from his pistol as he was going up the steps.

"The shot went down at the porch,” Altman told us. “He told me it scared him to death when the gun went off and almost blew his foot off."

Altman continues:
“These SCE&G workers can thank their lucky stars and their good lord that somebody didn't stick a shotgun barrel out of a window in the crescent last night and shoot one of them in half.”