State v. Bassett

Defendant, who was convicted following a jury trial of assault in the fourth degree, ORS 163.160(1), 1 appeals. He assigns error to an instruction that the trial court gave in response to the jury’s inquiry regarding the proper relationship between defendant’s voluntarily intoxicated condition at the time of the incident and his defense of self-defense. We conclude that the court’s instruction comported with the consensus of authority and with the dictates of ORS 161.125(1). 2 Accordingly, we affirm.

The state charged defendant with assault in the fourth degree, ORS 163.160(1). Evidence…