State v. Davis

*551RICHARDSON, J.

Defendant appeals his conviction by a jury of murder, ORS 163.115, and assigns as error the trial court’s failure to give requested instructions on reckless manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, the court’s instruction that a verdict of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect would exonerate defendant and the court’s imposition of a 20 year minimum sentence.

On the evening of November 2, 1978, defendant beat his female roommate to death with the barrel of a rifle. The autopsy report indicated the victim had sustained numerous blows to the head. Defendant then…