Hatcher v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to grant instruction on voluntary intoxication in a murder case, where evidence showed that defendant had been drinking, but no evidence suggested he was intoxicated
• “Although an instruction correctly states the law, if it is not applicable to the facts and circumstances of the case, it should not be given.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).