Case Name: Gibson v. Commonwealth
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1927-04-29
Citations: 219 Ky. 546
Docket Number: 
Parties: Gibson v. Commonwealth.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 219
Pages: 546–546

Head Matter:
Gibson v. Commonwealth.
(Decided April 29, 1927.)
CAUDILL & TACKETT for appellant.
FRANK E. DAUGHERTY, Attorney General, and G. D. LITSEY, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion of the Court by
Drury,
Commissioner— Reversing.
Jesse 'GHibson has appealed from a judgment imposing on Mm one year's confinement in the pemtentiary for maliciously cutting and wounding John Hall. This occurred in a drunken brawl. The instructions were erroneous, and upon the next trial the court will so modify instructions 1 and 2 as to reqrnre the jury to believe from the evidence beyond all reasonable' doubt the facts therein set out in order to find the defendant guilty. Instruction 4 should be so modified as to rest the defendant's right of self-defense, not on the danger in which the jury believed the defendant was, but upon the danger .actually or reasonably apparent to the defendant. This court prepared such an instruction in Mullins v. Com., 108 S. W. 252, 32 Ky. Law Rep. 1216, and it has often been approved.
The judgment is reversed.