Fetters v. State

McNEILLY, Justice:

Defendant, Frederick Fetters, appeals from his Superior Court jury conviction of Murder in the Second Degree, contending that the Trial Court committed reversible error in failing to instruct the jury on the law of self-defense, by denying his request for a non-jury trial, and by refusing to admit the testimony of defendant’s expert witness on the results of a sodium amytal test administered to defendant.

I

On July 4,1978 police arrived at the home of the victim and father of the defendant to find the victim lying in the living room badly injured. To the officer’s inquiry as…