State v. Fisher

BROWNING, Justice.

The State presented evidence which tended to show that the defendant, John Perry Fisher, and the deceased, Claude Allen Hill, had been “best friends” for a number of years; that on the evening of 3 September 1984 the defendant and Hill drove in the defendant’s wife’s car to a party at the home of Brenda Fisher; and that the defendant and Hill had been drinking beer and liquor, as well as smoking marijuana, earlier that same day and that they were “high off of liquor” prior to attending the party. There was also evidence that the defendant had threatened Hill with a knife in…