Lawrence v. State

This is an appeal by the defendant Gerald Lawrence from a judgment of conviction and sentence for second-degree murder entered below upon an adverse jury verdict. The defendant raises two points on appeal, neither of which present reversible error; we accordingly affirm.

First, the trial court did not, as urged, commit reversible error in refusing to instruct the jury on the elements of robbery which was allegedly required in order to fully instruct the jury on the defendant’s justifiable homicide defense. This is so because the evidence adduced at trial showed, without contradiction, that the…