Gray v. State

William Gray was convicted by a Pope County Circuit Court jury of murder in the first degree. He was sentenced to forty years' imprisonment plus a fifteen-year-imprisonment enhancement because the jury also found that he employed a firearm as a means of committing the murder. On appeal, Gray argues that the Pope County Circuit Court abused its discretion in refusing to include language in his justification jury instruction that he was not required to retreat from the curtilage of his dwelling. Because this issue is not preserved for appeal, we affirm.

On May 25, 2016, law-enforcement officers…