Harris v. State

ZEHMER, Judge.

Claude Jerome Harris appeals a final judgment entered on a jury verdict adjudicating him guilty of one count of attempted first degree premeditated murder with a firearm and one count of second degree murder with a firearm. Harris was given a departure sentence of two terms of life imprisonment, to run concurrently.

Harris first contends that the trial court erred in (1) instructing the jury on manslaughter without defining justifiable homicide and (2) instructing the jury using the short-form excusable homicide instruction. The record indicates that Harris specifically requested…