State v. Chambers

Goolsby, Judge:

The sole issue presented by William D. Chambers in his appeal from convictions for murder and second-degree arson is whether the trial judge erred in denying Chambers’ request for an instruction to the jury that a guest who kills a person in the person’s own home has no duty to retreat before self-defense can be asserted as a defense. Chambers shot and killed Nick Hastings while a guest in Hastings’ home, a home Chambers set afire after shooting Hastings. Chambers claimed at trial that, before he shot Hastings, Hastings had attacked him.

*44A lawful guest attacked in the home of…