Opinion ID: 2494734
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Whether the circuit court erred in giving the State's jury instruction on flight.

Text: ¶ 30. Sanders's second assignment of error is that the trial court erred when it granted the State's instruction on flight: The Court instructs the jury that flight is a circumstance from which guilty knowledge and fear may be inferred. If you find from the evidence in this case beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant, Keir D. Sanders, did flee from the scene of the death of W.D. Crawford, Jr. and the shooting of Elma Lee Crawford, then the flight of Keir D. Sanders may be considered in connection with all other evidence in the case. You may determine from all of the facts whether the flight was from a conscious sense of guilt or whether it was caused by other things, and give it such weight as you think it is entitled to in reaching verdicts in this case. The Court of Appeals found no error in the giving of this instruction. We agree with its learned analysis and adopt its conclusions of law.