Carter v. United States

TERRY, Associate Judge:

After a jury trial, appellant was convicted of unauthorized use of a vehicle, assault on a police officer with a dangerous weapon (an automobile), and five counts of malicious destruction of property (five automobiles). 1 On appeal he contends that the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury on the defense of accident, in not permitting him to offer evidence of intoxication in support of that defense, in defining the element of malice while instructing on the offense of malicious destruction of property, and in refusing to give an instruction on intoxication…