Cheser v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reiterating that “the difference between the statutory defenses and a simple denial by the defendant that he committed one or more of the essential elements of the crime is that when a statutory defense is raised, it requires an instruction calling it to the attention of the jury”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).