State v. Johnson

The defendant, Patricia Johnson, was indicted for malicious wounding and was convicted of the lesser included offense of unlawful wounding in the Circuit Court of Clay County. She was sentenced to one to five years imprisonment, and subsequent to the circuit court’s denial of her motion to set aside the verdict and award a new trial, prosecuted this appeal. She claims that the court erred in: (1) refusing to give Defendant’s Instructions Nos. 10 and 11 dealing with self-defense, and (2) making a statement to the jury during its deliberations about the cost to the State in prosecuting a…