Gordon v. State

OPINION

Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., and CONNOR, ERWIN, BOOCHEVER, and FITZGERALD, JJ. BOOCHEVER, Justice.

Gordon was convicted of the crime of possession of a concealable firearm by a convicted felon. His appeal raises the sole issue of whether the trial court erred in refusing a requested instruction pertaining to the credibility of an accomplice’s testimony.

Eugene Curtis Gordon and Walter Paul Schumacher were convicted felons who, in August 1973, shared a room together while being confined at the State Correctional Center at Palmer, Alaska, a minimum-security institution. Gordon, the defendant…