Hunter v. State

Appellant was charged with first-degree murder and convicted of third-degree murder after a jury trial. He challenges the conviction on three grounds: (1) the trial court should have granted his request for a particular jury instruction on self-defense; (2) the court should have admitted testimony intended to establish the victim’s violent character and reputation in the community for violence; and (3) the trial judge should have reinstructed the jury on the definitions of justifiable and excusable homicide along with his reinstruction on the definition of first-, second-, and third-degree…