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JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 89-1498.

569 So.2d 907 (1990)

Samuel JOHNSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

November 15, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Brynn Newton, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Belle B. Turner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.

HARRIS, Judge.

Samuel Johnson appeals his conviction for manslaughter. He contends that the trial court erred in failing to give a complete and contemporaneous definition of justifiable and excusable homicide as part of the manslaughter charge.1 Under the facts of this case, we affirm.

Johnson does not contend in his argument that the instructions were incorrect statements of law or were incomplete instructions. He complains rather...

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