State v. Delano
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of aggravated assault. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment, holding (1) although the jury should have received complete instructions before beginning deliberations, Defendant was not unfairly prejudiced when the trial court provided additional jury instructions, after the jury had already begun deliberations, regarding an alternative means of proving aggravated assault as a lesser included offense of the charged crime of elevated aggravated assault; and (2) the trial court did not err by refusing to give a requested jury instruction on self-defense, as the evidence did not generate a self-defense instruction.
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