State v. Anthony V.

Summary

The court held that the trial court's failure to give a separate general-intent instruction did not constitute plain error because the recklessness instruction, read as a whole, conveyed the required volitional conduct element. The omission also did not cause manifest injustice because the defendant's broader course of conduct involved numerous intentional acts creating a grave risk of death. The court further concluded that affirming the conviction did not impermissibly alter the state's theory of the case.