State v. Eskina

BILLINGS, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Robert Wayne Eskina was charged with capital murder and convicted of manslaughter by a Jasper County jury. His punishment was fixed at ten years imprisonment and this appeal followed. We affirm.

Defendant’s first point is that “The trial court erred in submitting the case to the jury on the issue of whether the defendant had acted in lawful self-defense and should have granted a judgment of acquittal because the evidence was undisputed that the defendant had so acted so as to require the trial court to dispose of the charge without submitting it to a jury.”

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