Court Opinion

ID: 9585046
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:55:27.764029+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:26:56.746507
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Pope, Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. I believe the trial court correctly refused to give the requested charge on defense of habitation. Although the record clearly shows that the decedent entered into and remained within defendant’s home against defendant’s expressed wishes, the record also just as clearly shows, in every specific reference to the shooting, that defendant shot the decedent because he thought the decedent was about to kill or seriously harm him. This raises the defense of self-defense, not defense of habitation. The trial court charged the jury on self-defense and I would hold this adequate under the evidence of the case. I would therefore affirm the judgment.
*26I am authorized to state that Presiding Judge McMurray, Judge Banke and Judge Birdsong join in this dissent.