Ortagus v. State

500 So.2d 1367 (1987)

James Wayne ORTAGUS, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. BL-204.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

January 6, 1987.

Henry M. Coxe, III of Coxe & Schemer, Jacksonville, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Maria Ines Suber, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

MILLS, Judge.

In this appeal from a conviction for manslaughter with a firearm, Ortagus presents the following issues for our consideration: (1) whether the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury on the law of justifiable and excusable homicide contemporaneously with the instruction on…