Wilson v. Commonwealth

OPINION

WILHOIT, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment sentencing the appellant to 15 years’ imprisonment for first-degree manslaughter.

Two assignments of error are made on this appeal. The first is that the trial court erred in excluding evidence of four specific violent acts committed by the victim of which the appellant had knowledge. The second is that the trial court erroneously gave the jury a self-protection instruction with an “initial aggressor qualification” which was not supported by the evidence.

The appellant was convicted of shooting and killing his sister’s boyfriend. His defense…