Publication Date: 2016-04-08
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason R. Hasty, Martinez, for appellant.
for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, Joshua B. Smith District Attorney's Office, Augusta, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Aimee F. Sobhani, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S16A0262
Even assuming that the trial court erred in declining the defendant's request to charge the jury on involuntary manslaughter as a lesser included offense of murder, the error was harmless because it