Gaddy v. State

The defendant, Elmer Gaddy, was charged by information filed in the district court of Tulsa county with the crime of assault with intent to kill; was tried, convicted of the offense of assault with a dangerous weapon, and was sentenced to serve six months in the county jail, and has appealed.

The only assignment of error presented in the brief of the defendant is that the court committed fundamental error in failing to give the jury an instruction on the law of self-defense, or to submit to the jury any instruction on the defendant’s theory of. the case. No brief has been filed by the state.

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