SMITH, Judge.
Where a criminal defendant bases his defense solely on misfortune or accident, is the trial court required to charge on this defense even absent a request to do so? Answering affirmatively, we must reverse the appellant's burglary conviction and grant him a new trial.
Code § 26-602 provides: "A person shall not be found guilty of any crime committed by misfortune or accident where it satisfactorily appears there was no criminal scheme or...
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