State v. Richardson

MCCRODDEN, Judge.

On appeal, defendant raises two issues: (I) whether the trial court committed prejudicial error when it interrupted the prosecutor’s closing argument to comment that the rules for defending the home are different from the rules for other premises, and (II) whether the trial court erred in instructing the jury that it could find that the defendant acted in self-defense only if he reasonably believed it necessary to kill, as opposed to shoot, in self-defense.

The evidence at trial showed that shortly after midnight on 18 July 1991, defendant, who was the acting manager of the…