PER CURIAM.
The defendant Jessie James Jefferson appeals his conviction and sentence for manslaughter and raises two points on appeal. First, he claims the trial court erred in deleting portions of the standard jury instruction on deadly force in the court's charge to the jury. We reject this contention because no evidence was adduced below to support the deleted portion of the charge. Indeed, the defendant testified, quite to the contrary, that he shot the victim...
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