Wayne G. Woods v. Herman Solem, Warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary & Roger Tellinghuisen, Attorney General of the State of South Dakota

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Wayne Woods, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, appeals from the district court’s 1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982). Woods challenges the trial court’s refusal to issue a jury instruction defining self-defense and justification. The two issues in this appeal are whether the trial court’s instructions either violated due process by improperly removing an issue from the jury’s consideration, or unconstitutionally eased the State’s burden of proving every element of first-degree murder…