PADGETT, Judge.
The appellant was convicted of Manslaughter after a jury trial. Her defense at trial was one of justification, i.e. self-defense. An instruction was given at the request of appellant's counsel that the burden of proof was on the appellant to prove self-defense by a preponderance of the evidence. Because of the giving of that instruction, we reverse.
The appellant stabbed to death the decedent in her apartment on December 17, 1977. The...
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