State v. Sanders

NORWIN D. HOUSER, Special Judge.

A jury convicted June Aaron Sanders, Jr., of second degree murder. Given a 20-year sentence, he has appealed, contending that the court erred in not giving an instruction on the imperfect right of self-defense, and that it was error to admit in evidence two photographs of the dead body of deceased because they were gruesome, inflammatory and prejudicial.

The court gave instructions on first and second degree murder, excusable homicide (accident), justifiable homicide (perfect self-defense), and Instruction No. 7 that if the jury did not find defendant guilty of…