State v. Minnis

CHARLES SHANGLER, Special Judge.

A jury found Ronald Claude Minnis guilty of murder in the second degree and thereby rejected his justification of self-defense. Defendant was sentenced to a term of twenty years in the penitentiary. On this appeal he claims error in the self- defense submission and in refusing prof- ■ fered Instruction A.

We relate only that evidence necessary to properly define and determine the issues presented. For that purpose, we are relegated essentially to defendant’s evidence, for there was no proof of self-defense in the state’s case.

In the early morning of July 6,…