Warren v. State

The decedent, Richard Ferris, Jr., came to the Holiday Inn in Riverton, Wyoming to fight and he stayed there to die. Both events were tragic. No less tragic are the results of this “dipsomaniacal eonfrontation[]” to the survivors. Op. at 305. To be judicially faced is the penitentiary confinement sentence as the result of the participation or the mere presence of the appellant, Earl Warren (Warren), whichever the case may have been.

I dissent in conclusion that the theory of defense instruction of simple battery should have been given and that the instruction which was used effectively and…