Alejo v. State

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• failure to give complete manslaughter instruction was fundamental error where the instruction negated defendant's defense theory
• defendant's sentence for second-degree murder could not be enhanced to life felony where jury's verdict neither referred to use of weapon nor mentioned information which charged defendant with use of knife on commission of offense
• failure to define justifiable and excusable homicide in original instructions fundamental error

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