ORTAGUS v. STATE

No. BL-204.

500 So.2d 1367 (1987)

James Wayne ORTAGUS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

January 6, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry M. Coxe, III of Coxe & Schemer, Jacksonville, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Maria Ines Suber, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


MILLS, Judge.

In this appeal from a conviction for manslaughter with a firearm, Ortagus presents the following issues for our consideration: (1) whether the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury on the law of justifiable and excusable homicide contemporaneously with the instruction on manslaughter; (2) whether the trial court properly instructed the jury on excusable homicide; (3) whether the trial court reversibly erred when it instructed the jury on...

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