Ragan v. State

CAMPBELL, Judge.

Appellant, convicted of second degree murder for the death of his friend, Wagner, argues that the court should have given the jury his proposed instruction on assisting self-murder, which is now defined *277in section 782.08, Florida Statutes (1989). We disagree.

The only case that appears to address the offense of assisting self-murder is Patrick v. State, 117 Fla. 432, 158 So. 101 (Fla.1934), which is not cited to us by appellant.

In Patrick, the defendant was charged by indictment with first degree murder by shooting the victim, and the court gave a requested jury instruction of…