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219 Ky. 546

293 S.W 1056

Gibson v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · decided 1927-04-29

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently May 1931

2 state decisions

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Decided 1927-04-29

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¶1 Opinion of the Court by

Drury,

¶2 Commissioner— Reversing.

¶3 Jesse 'GHibson has appealed from a judgment imposing on Mm one year’s confinement in the pemtentiary for maliciously cutting and wounding John Hall. This occurred in a drunken brawl. The instructions were erroneous, and upon the next trial the court will so modify instructions 1 and 2 as to reqrnre the jury to believe from the evidence beyond all reasonable' doubt the facts therein set out in order to find the defendant guilty. Instruction 4 should be so modified as to rest the defendant’s right of self-defense, not on the danger in which the jury believed the defendant was, but upon the danger .actually or reasonably apparent to the defendant. This court prepared such an instruction in Mullins v. Com., 108 S. W. 252, 32 Ky. Law Rep. 1216, and it has often been approved.

¶4 The judgment is reversed.

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