Case Name: PEOPLE v. CHARLES JACKSON
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1970-01-27
Citations: 21 Mich. App. 132
Docket Number: Docket No. 6,046
Parties: PEOPLE v. CHARLES JACKSON
Judges: Before: Lesinski, C. J., and J. H. Gillis and Quinn, JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 21
Pages: 132–133

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v. CHARLES JACKSON
1. Appeal and Error — Instructions to Jury — Preserving Question — Court Rules.
A defendant is precluded from claiming error on appeal based . on trial judge’s failure to give an instruction when defendant was afforded an opportunity to objeet to charge given before jury retired and made no objection (GGR 1963, 516.2).
2. Appeal and Error — Instructions to Jury — Preserving Question — Court Rules — Manifest Injustice.
The Court of Appeals will review error in instructions to the jury, even though the eourt rule requiring objection was not complied with, to prevent manifest injustice in cases where there was an omission or error in the instructions on basic and controlling issues (GCR 1963, 516.2).
3. Appeal and Error — Instructions to Jury — Manifest Injustice.
The Court of Appeals views instructions to the jury as a whole, and will not reverse where two excerpts from the instructions standing alone are in error on basic and controlling issues, but in context are not erroneous.
Appeal from Wayne, Thomas E. Brennan, J.
Submitted Division 1 January 7, 1970, at Detroit.
(Docket No. 6,046.)
Decided January 27, 1970.
Leave to appeal denied August 19, 1970.
383 Mich 820.
Charles Jackson, Jr., was convicted of robbery unarmed. Defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Samuel J. Torina, Chief Ap pellate Lawyer, and Angelo A. Pentolino, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
Refbrences for Points in Headnotes
[1, 2] 5 Am Jur 2d, Appeal and Error § 891.
5 Am Jur 2d, Appeal and Error § 894.
Richard Thompson, for defendant on appeal.
Before: Lesinski, C. J., and J. H. Gillis and Quinn, JJ.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Convicted by jury verdict of and sentenced for robbery unarmed, MCLA § 750.530 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.798), defendant appeals. He contends on appeal that tbe trial judge erred reversibly in two instructions given to tbe jury, and be admits no requests to instruct were made nor was there objection to tbe instructions as given.
Commencing witb People v. Mallory (1966), 2 Mich App 359, this Court has consistently held that to preserve alleged errors in instructions for review, tbe mandates of GCR 1963, 516.2 must be complied witb. Tbe exceptions to tbis consistent bolding have involved omissions to instruct or errors in instructing on basie and controlling issues. In tbe latter situation, we have noted tbe error although GCR 1963, 516.2 was not complied witb to prevent manifest injustice. Tbis, we believe, is consistent witb tbe intent and philosophy of MCLA § 768.29 and 769.26 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.1052 and 28.1096) and GCR 1963, 529.1. It is also consistent witb tbe unanimous view of tbe Supreme Court. Hunt v. Deming (1965), 375 Mich 581.
In tbe case before us, defendant relies on two excerpts from the instructions. Standing alone they are erroneous on basic and controlling issues. In context witb tbe entire instruction, they are not erroneous. We view tbe instructions as a whole. People v. Fred W. Thomas (1967), 7 Mich App 519.
Affirmed.