State v. Chambers

HEDRICK, Judge.

The defendant first contends that the court committed prejudicial error in its instructions to the jury in the matter of self-defense. We do not agree.

The evidence of the State and the defendant was in sharp conflict as to exactly how the prosecuting witness happened to get shot. All of the evidence tended to show that an argument between the parties had ended and the defendant had gone into her house. The defendant’s evidence tended to show that she shot Jeanette Williams as she came up to the steps toward the defendant with a knife in her hand. The court’s instructions to the…