State v. Perkins

JAMES F. McKAY III, Chief Judge.

hOn September 3, 2014, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued a Per Curiam, in a five to two split panel decision, finding that this Court erred as a matter of law in *650reversing the defendant’s conviction and sentence and instructed this Court to consider the defendant’s remaining assignments of error which had been pretermit-ted. This opinion follows.

ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR NUMBER 1

In his first assignment of error the defendant asserted that the trial court erred when it refused to give his requested instructions regarding self-defense, necessity and justification.…