Stallings v. State

WOLF, Judge.

Appellant challenges his convictions for second-degree murder and aggravated battery. Appellant asserts that the trial court erred in instructing the jury on flight. We hold that the error in giving an instruction on flight was not harmless under the circumstances of this case, and we reverse.

Appellant stabbed and killed the victim during a confrontation in a parking lot in Panama City Beach. Appellant was accompanied by a group of young people from Alabama. The victim was accompanied by a group of young people from Georgia. Evidence was presented that both groups of people had…