Opinion ID: 1126392
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 9

Heading: whether the circuit court erred in granting the state's jury instruction s-1

Text: ¶ 35. Jones asserts that the circuit court committed reversible error when it granted jury instruction S-1. However, Jones failed to object to the jury instruction offered by the State at trial. This Court has held on numerous occasions that an offended party's failure to object to jury instructions at trial procedurally bars the issue on appeal. Walker v. State, 729 So.2d 197, 202 (Miss.1998); see also Green v. State, 631 So.2d 167, 173 (Miss.1994) (Green failed to object to the manslaughter instruction given at trial; therefore, it is not necessary for us to review this assignment.). ¶ 36. In the present case, not only did Jones fail to object to the jury instruction, he agreed with the revised instruction. During the discussion of instructions, the trial court expressed some concern regarding the wording in the second paragraph of jury instruction S-1. The court subsequently struck through some of the wording. Jones's only response was, I would not object to that, Your Honor. The present case is similar to Butler v. State, 544 So.2d 816, 818 (Miss.1989), where Butler, in addition to not objecting to the jury instruction at trial, acquiesced in the giving of the instruction. In Butler, this Court held the defendant's failure to object at the trial level, coupled with this assent to the giving of the instruction, barred him from raising such an error upon appeal. Accordingly, Jones waived any objection by not objecting to the jury instruction at trial, and this Court declines to address this issue upon appeal.