OPINION
MINZNER, Judge.
Defendant appeals his conviction in a jury trial for battery of a police officer. The sole issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion for a mistrial after it read the jury a general explanatory instruction used in civil cases. We affirm defendant's conviction.
The trial court gave the jury an oral, pre-evidentiary instruction, patterned after SCRA 1986, 13-106. The jury was instructed "...
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