Phillip v. State

VOIGT, Chief Justice.

[11] Jason Gerald Phillip (the appellant) was involved in a bar fight, during which he bit off a piece of a fellow patron's ear. As a result of this incident, he was charged with and convicted of aggravated assault and battery. On appeal, he claims that the district court erred in instructing the jury regarding an aggressor's forfeiture of a self-defense claim, asserting that there was no evidence showing that he was the aggressor in the altercation. The appellant also asserts that an Affidavit of Indigency, containing statements inconsistent with his in-court testimony,…