The Pemble obligation to leave alternative verdicts to the jury does not require a trial judge to leave manslaughter where the evidence, if accepted, establishes murder and there is no evidential foundation for any lesser form of culpable homicide. In a wholly circumstantial no-body murder case, the jury may infer death, causation, and intent to kill from the totality of the circumstantial evidence, including the exclusion of all reasonable hypotheses consistent with innocence.
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