Opinion ID: 1694698
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Heading Rank: 9

Heading: Malice in Information and in Elements Instruction.

Text: Davlin asserts that the district court erred in failing to quash the information because it did not allege malice and in failing to include malice as an element of second degree murder in its instructions to the jury. Davlin argues that the trial court erred by retroactively applying this court's holding in State v. Burlison, 255 Neb. 190, 583 N.W.2d 31 (1998). Davlin concedes that this court decided this question against him in the appeal of his first conviction. See State v. Davlin, 263 Neb. 283, 639 N.W.2d 631 (2002). We reject this assignment of error, both on its merits for the reasons set forth in Davlin, supra, and on the further ground that our holding in that opinion is the law of the case. See, State v. Hall, 270 Neb. 669, 708 N.W.2d 209 (2005); State v. Gales, 269 Neb. 443, 694 N.W.2d 124 (2005).