Publication Date: 2015-06-08
Practice Area:
Industry:
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Viveca B. Famber, Austell, for appellant.
for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Jay M. Jackson, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Vicki S. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S15A0590
The trial court properly declined to charge the jury on defense of others, since there was no evidence that the defendant killed his sister's boyfriend in defense of his sister or any other third