State v. Boyd

HENLEY, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal 1 by Alfred Cornelius Boyd (hereinafter defendant) from a judgment sentencing him to imprisonment for a term of five years upon his conviction of the charge that he, while a prisoner in the Missouri State Penitentiary, did feloniously offer violence to another inmate by stabbing him with a knife. Section 216.460. 2

The failure of the court to give an instruction on the law of self-defense presents the principal question in this case. And, it is for this failure that we reverse and remand.

Defendant contends that the court erred (1) in refusing to give…