Court Opinion

ID: 9686830
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 16:08:00.295037+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:45:26.996153
License: Public Domain

Faiechild, J.
(concurring). I agree with the affirmance of the judgment. I conclude, however, that whether or not the physical facts refuted defendant’s explanation of the first shot, defendant cannot complain of failure to submit a form of verdict of second-degree murder. In my opinion the defendant is bound by his own testimony and if his version of the affair were believed, the first shot would be an accidental incident of a physical struggle. Defendant had no explana*48tion of the subsequent shots. Defendant’s participation in the struggle, as he described it, was not “conduct imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life,” and, according to him, the purpose in seizing the gun was to put it out of reach.