State v. Hammick

Defendant was convicted by jury of assault with a dangerous weapon and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. He appeals alleging the trial court’s instructions to the jury on self-defense were erroneous in one particular.

Defendant and his girl friend Anna Jones, along with Curtis Harris, went to the home of Miss Jones’s former boy friend, Jerry Graves, the assault victim, to discuss problems between them. There is a conflict about who was the aggressor and precisely what occurred in the encounter between defendant and Jerry Graves outside Graves’s home — whether Jerry Graves attempted to…