ASHER v. COMMONWEALTH


251 S.W.2d 840 (1952)

ASHER v. COMMONWEALTH.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

October 10, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Isaac Turner, Hyden, for appellant.

J. D. Buckman, Jr., Atty. Gen., for appellee.


CLAY, Commissioner.

Appellant was convicted of the malicious shooting and wounding of one Curt Wooten and was given the minimum sentence of two years in the penitentiary. On this appeal he urges that the trial court erroneously failed to give him instructions on: (1) shooting in defense of others; and (2) accidental shooting.

Wooten operated a filling station and restaurant. A week before the occurrence he had told appellant not to come back to his place of...

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