BROWN, Judge.
Defendant, Eric Jerome Thomas, appeals his convictions for second degree murder and attempted second degree murder. His appeal is founded on the failure of the trial court to charge the jury that the state had the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the homicide was without justification. Defendant, who neither requested such a charge nor objected to the instructions given by the trial court, claims that the omission resulted in a trial...
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