State v. Cecil Grose

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• stating that the trial court had no duty to instruct the jury that the defendant‟s diminished capacity could be considered in determining whether he was capable of forming the requisite mental state for the offense
• finding no error in the trial court’s refusal to give a specific charge on diminished capacity
• no particular additional jury instruction on diminished capacity necessary where defendant introduced proof of his diminished mental abilities and jury was instructed on proper mens rea required for first degree murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).