¶1Mr. L. Welch Pogue, Washington, D. C.. (appointed by this court), for appellant.
¶2Mr. William C. Weitzel, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., and Prank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee. Mr. Barry Sidman, Asst. U. S. Atty., also entered an appearance for ap-pellee.
¶3Before Danaher, Bastían and McGowan, Circuit Judges.
¶5Appellant was indicted for second degree murder, § 22-2403, D.C.Code, and was convicted of manslaughter, § 22—2405, D.C.Code.1
¶6The evidence offered by the Government, and obviously accepted by the jury, was that the victim, a young girl eighteen years of age, together with a friend of hers, went to a restaurant in the District of Columbia. After the closing of the-restaurant she stood with a girl friend on a corner for a short time, talking to-several members of the band which had been playing in the restaurant. Appellant approached the decedent and struck her in the face with his fist. He told her to come to where he was and, on her refusal, chased her down the street. After catching her, he again struck her as she lay over an iron picket fence. Seriously injured, she was taken first to her home and later to a hospital, where she died about three hours after the assault upon her.
¶7At the trial the Deputy Coroner for the District of Columbia testified that he had performed an autopsy on the body of de*763cedent; that the cause of death was hemorrhage and shock due to a rupture of the liver with a massive hemorrhage in the parietal cavity.2 He expressed the opinion that a blow in the rear of decedent’s body while she was lying across the picket fence would be sufficient to cause the type of injury sustained by the decedent. He further stated that an ordinary fall would not cause such injury.3
¶8After instructing on the offense of second degree murder, the trial court instructed the jury on the lesser included offense of manslaughter.4
¶9On this appeal appellant attacks the trial court’s charge, which was not objected to at the trial.5 The charge, considered as a whole, conveyed to the jury the correct rules on second degree murder and manslaughter; and we are further convinced that the matters about which appellant complains do not affect substantial rights under Fed.R.Crim.P. 52(b).
¶10Affirmed.