Opinion

State v. Brown

  • 505 So. 2d 1130
  • 1987 La. LEXIS 9060
Court
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Filed
Apr 23, 1987
Status
Published
Author
Dennis
On the bench
Dennis
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 26.4%

The opinion

DENNIS, J.,

concurs in the denial.

State v. Carter, 227 La. 820 , 80 So.2d 420 (1955) requires more than a general charge on burden of proof when self defense is at issue. Therefore, the trial court erred when it denied defendant’s request for a special instruction that the burden of proof did not shift to the defendant on self defense. However, the error in this case appears to be harmless.

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