Court Opinion

ID: 7587130
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 06:38:39.641179+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:24:36.047637
License: Public Domain

SCHOTT, Chief Judge,
concurring:
A requested special charge shall be given if it is pertinent to the case. C.Cr.P. art. 807. A charge on flight is applicable when the defendant is the one who flees. State v. Smith, 407 So.2d 652 (La.1981); State v. Alexander, 504 So.2d 591 (La.App. 4th Cir. 1987). In this case an unidentified person, not the defendant, fled. Consequently, the defendant’s requested charge was not pertinent and the trial court correctly declined to give it.