Carranza v. State

STONE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a manslaughter conviction. The defendant was charged with second degree murder. The victim had been struck with a shovel handle in the course of a melee, and there was ample proof of defendant’s guilt. The primary issue at trial was whether the killing was a justifiable or excusable homicide as being in defense of another. The sole issue on appeal is whether, after the jury requested reinstruction on the definitions of murder, manslaughter and battery, the trial court erred in failing to repeat the definition of the justifiable use of force in defense of…