Court Opinion

ID: 9546332
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 17:27:44.147279+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:16:18.254100
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing
BRETT, Judge.
On rehearing it has been called to our attention that on June 9, 1954 there was filed in this court what is designated as an “Amendment to the Case-made”, containing a motion and application for leave to submit the defendant’s requested and refused instructions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 which through some inadvertence were not included in the original case-made and to which reference is made in the opinion of the court handed down on December 22, 1954. In the amendment to the case-made it does not appear that any objection or exception was saved to the court’s refusal to give said requested instructions, as provided in Title 22, § 831 and Title 22, § 856, O.S.1951. Thus the record was not properly preserved as a predicate for appeal as to requested instructions. It is apparent no such exceptions were taken since none appear of record in either the original or the amendment to the case-made. The trial court could not now grant an exception to its refusal to give the requested instructions, for after the verdict of the jury the trial court has no power to grant exceptions to instructions. Russell v. State, 17 Okl.Cr. 164, 194 P. 242. The same procedure applicable to given instructions would be applicable to requested instructions, exceptions to the court’s refusal to give them must appear of record.
 However, we have carefully examined and compared the requested instructions with those which were given and we find that the questions of temporary or emotional insanity and defense of not guilty by reason of insanity as requested in defendant’s instructions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 were substantially covered in the instructions given by the trial court. No objection and exception was saved to any of the instructions so given. It has been repeatedly held where no objection is taken to the instructions of the trial court, such instructions will not be examined by this court for the purpose of discovering other than fundamental error. Green v. State, 70 Okl.Cr. 228, 105 P.2d 795. We find no fundamental error in the instructions given by the trial court. Under the record thus presented in the original case-made and the amendment to the case-made the situation has thus not been sufficiently changed to warrant any change in the results of the original opinion.
JONES, P. J., and POWELL, J., concur.