New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance v. McDermott

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• holding that there was no evidence of justification where, among other things, there was no evidence that the victim was reaching for a weapon and the defendant shot the victim after the defendant became angry while speaking with the victim
• slight evidence is sufficient to authorize the giving of a requested jury instruction
• trial court did not err by refusing to charge on self-defense where there was no evidence that appellant was in fear of suffering harm during the encounter with the victim or that the victim was reaching for a weapon
• trial court did not err by refusing to charge on self-defense where there was no evidence that appellant was in fear of suffering harm during the encounter with the victim or that the victim was reaching for a weapon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).