Brown v. State

467 So.2d 323 (1985)

Lucretia BROWN, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 84-1084.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

February 13, 1985.

Sara Blumberg and Michael Dubiner of Dubiner & Blumberg, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Joan Fowler Rossin, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Appellant seeks reversal of her conviction of second degree murder. She claims that the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury on justifiable and excusable homicide, and in failing to give an instruction which properly placed…