Coleman v. State

AFFIRMED BY UNPUBLISHED MEMORANDUM.

McMILLAN, P.J., and WISE, J., concur; COBB, J., concurs in part and concurs in the result in part, with opinion, which SHAW, J., joins.

John Stephen Coleman was indicted for capital murder, but was convicted of the lesser-included offense of manslaughter, a violation of §13A-6-3(a)(2), Ala. Code 1975. Coleman contends that the trial court erred in refusing his requested jury instruction on "causal connection."

I concur in the result to Part II of the majority's unpublished memorandum because I disagree with the majority's conclusion that Coleman failed to…