Washington v. State

TAYLOR, Judge.

The appellant, Pierre Deanthony Washington, was convicted of assault in the first degree, a violation of § 13A-6-20, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced as a habitual felony offender to life in prison.

The evidence presented at trial tended to show that the appellant chased James Bailey on University Boulevard in Birmingham, Alabama, and that he shot Bailey when he had chased him to a point under the Red Mountain Expressway overpass. The appellant contends that the court erred in refusing to give two of his requested jury instructions.

I

First, the appellant contends that the…