Bolden v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The next proposition contends that the trial court erred in failing to instruct on the included offenses of Unlawful Entry and Malicious Destruction. The defendant candidly admits in his brief that ‘but the evidence here, in absence of anything indicating malice or specific non-burglarious intent, would hardly seem to justify such an instruction.’ In dealing with a similar question in Hickman v. State, Okl.Cr., 344 P.2d 593 , where the accused denied being at the scene and denied knowledge of any burglary, we held that it was not error for the trial court to refuse instructions on included misdemeanor offenses. In the instant case, neither defendant testified, and thus, there was no evidence tending to explain defendant's presence in the building which would call for an instruction on the included offenses.” (EMPHASIS ADDED)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morrow v. State