Opinion ID: 1868405
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: whether the trial court should have granted instruction d-17, defining deliberate design?

Text: Proposed jury instruction D-17 was not given; it reads as follows: One of the elements of murder which the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt is deliberate design. Deliberate indicates full awareness of what one is doing, and generally implies careful and unhurried consideration of the consequences. Design means to calculate, plan, contemplate. Catchings contends that, because instruction S-1 regarding deliberate design was given, then his proposed instruction D-17, which defines deliberate design, should have been given as well. This Court will not reverse for denial of an individual instruction when the jury has been instructed properly and fully by the granting of all the instructions. Collins v. State, 594 So.2d 29, 35 (Miss. 1992). Here the elements of murder were sufficiently addressed by the granting of other instructions. Therefore, this assignment of error is without merit.