Olevich v. Olevich

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• holding that there was no error in refusing to charge the jury on mutual combat where the defendant’s “own testimony ― in which he claimed self-defense ― contradicted a theory of mutual combat”
• explaining that “attorneys are not permitted to misstate the law to the jury”
• no error in refusing to charge on mutual combat where defendant’s “own testimony — in which he claimed self-defense — contradicted 15 a theory of mutual combat”
• Appellant “points to no record evidence that he and [the victim] intended to engage in mutual combat, and we can find none.”
• no error in refusing to charge the jury on mutual combat where defendant’s own testimony — in which he claimed self-defense — contradicted theory of mutual combat and there was no other evidence to support such a theory
• prosecutor’s misstatement of law during closing argument was harmless error in light of court’s instruction to jury upon defense’s objection that the court would be charging on what the law is and the court’s later correct jury charge on the law

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