Folger v. State

OPINION

COATS, Judge.

Robert Folger was charged with assault in the first degree, AS 11.41.200 (a felony), in connection with his stabbing of Gary Albert. He was tried before a jury and convicted of a lesser-included offense, assault in the third degree, AS 11.41.230 (a felony). His sole point on appeal challenges the trial court’s refusal to give instructions *112on self-defense. Folger relies on AS 11.81.-330 and AS 11.81.335.1

The evidence taken in the light most favorable to the defendant reveals the following: a dance held in the Tanana Community Hall on June 13, 1981 lasted through the early…