State v. Walker

MORRIS, Judge.

Defendant brings forward as purported error three aspects of the trial court’s charge to the jury. Defendant maintains *391that (1) the court’s instructions regarding self-defense failed to include the defendant’s right to defend himself in his home and lacked any reference to the legal concept of a “home”; (2) the court misstated the law by instructing the jury that defendant had the burden of proving self-defense, accident or misadventure; and (3) the court erred in purportedly limiting defendant’s possibility of acquittal to a finding of self-defense or accident.

Defendant first…