STATE v. JAMES

No. S-186.

698 P.2d 1161 (1985)

STATE of Alaska, Petitioner, v. Richard R. JAMES, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 19, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cynthia M. Hora, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, Norman C. Gorsuch, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for petitioner.

Charles R. Pengilly, Asst. Public Defender, Fairbanks, Dana Fabe, Public Defender, Anchorage, for respondent.

Before BURKE, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

The state seeks to reinstate a criminal conviction reversed by the court of appeals. The issue is whether a defendant is entitled to a unanimous jury verdict on a particular theory of the crime charged. In this instance the defendant was convicted of first degree assault.

I. STATEMENT OF THE CASE

On January 10, 1982 at Fort Yukon, Alaska, Chester Druck was found lying unconscious with a knife wound in his stomach...

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