Court Opinion

ID: 9792756
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:35:58.70877+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:45.059588
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LANE, Judge,
dissenting.
I dissent to the opinion of the majority on the issue of the trial court’s refusal to give OUJI-CR-727 as a requested instruction. I believe that any time there is sufficient evidence to cause the trial judge to give instructions on an affirmative defense an instruction must be given properly setting out the bur*1157den of proof. See, i.e., Bechtel v. State, 840 P.2d 1 (Okl.Cr.1992) (instruction necessary for defense of self defense) and Lee v. State, 655 P.2d 1046 (Okl.Cr.1982) (instruction necessary for defense of entrapment). Here, the appellant raised the defense of excusable homicide by reason of accident. The trial court instructed on this defense and gave all of the uniform instructions but number 727, the instruction which sets out the burden of proof.