Skrine v. State

Hall, Justice.

Skrine’s single enumeration of error on appeal from his murder conviction is the giving of a charge which he asserts was burden-shifting under Sandstrom v. Montana, — U.S. — (99 SC 2450, 61 LE2d 39) (1979).

His jury were charged in language very similar to Code § 26-604 that there was a presumption "that a person intends to accomplish the natural and probable consequences of his acts..but, "I instruct you, however, this presumption may be rebutted.”

Submitted August 3, 1979 Decided October 23, 1979.

The judge further charged, "I also instruct you a person will not be presumed to…