EVANS ET AL.

v.

LOUISIANA; LITTLETON V. TEXAS

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Kaplan, 554 F.2d 958 (9th Cir. 1977)
  …ive a requested instruction is not error “if the charge as a whole adequately covers the theory of the defense.” United States v. Blane, 375 F. 2d 249, 252 (6th Cir. 1967), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 835, 88 S.Ct. 41, 19 L.Ed.2d 96 (1967), reh'g denied, 389 U.S. 998, 88 S.Ct. 459, 19 L.Ed.2d 503 (1967). Thus, the adequacy of the jury instructions is “not be determined by the giving, or failure to give, any one or more instructions,” but by examining the instructions as a whole. Beck v. United States, 305 F. 2d…
• United States v. Garner, 529 F.2d 962 (6th Cir. 1976)
  …In a criminal case it is reversible error for a trial Judge to refuse to present adequately a defendant’s theory of defense. United States v. Blane, 375 F. 2d 249 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 835, 88 S.Ct. 41, 79 L.Ed.2d 96, rehearing denied, 389 U.S. 998, 88 S.Ct. 459, 19 L.Ed.2d 503 (1967). The trial judge was not required to adopt the language suggested by a defendant in the Court’s instructions to the jury; however, when a theory of defense finds some support in the evidence and in the law, a de…
• United States v. LEE, 589 F.2d 980 (9th Cir. 1979)
  …ive a requested instruction is not error ‘if the charge as a whole adequately covers the theory of the defense.’ United States v. Blane, 375 F. 2d 249, 252 (6th Cir. 1967), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 835, 88 S.Ct. 41, 19 L.Ed.2d 96 (1967), reh’g denied, 389 U.S. 998, 88 S.Ct. 459, 19 L.Ed.2d 503 (1967). Thus, the adequacy of the jury instructions is ‘not [to] be determined by the giving, or failure to give, any one or more instructions,’ but by examining the instructions as a whole. Beck v. United States, 305 F…