James v. State

OPINION

BRYNER, Chief Judge.

Richard James was convicted by a jury of assault in the first degree in violation of AS 11.41.200(a). Superior Court Judge Gerald J. Van Hoomissen sentenced James to serve fifteen years’ incarceration. James appeals, contending that several errors occurred at his trial; he also attacks his sentence as excessive.

FACTS

The events that led to James’s conviction began late in the evening of January 9, 1980, when Chester Druck visited James and Marilyn Horace at the house James shared with Horace in Fort Yukon. Druck testified that he spent the early hours of January 10…