Asher v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Cammack

Affirming.

James Asher has been sentenced to prison for 10 years for killing Bill Muncy. He asks that the judgment of conviction be reversed because (1) the court erred in the admission of incompetent and prejudicial evidence; and (2) he was entitled to a directed verdict because the evidence showed that he shot Muncy in self-defense.

Muncy, who had been working in Ohio, was visiting-in the home of hihmother-in-law, Bessie Couch, where his estranged wife anaxchildren were residing. There was testimonv that he whs drinking heavily. Asher and a )f speaking to…