Publication Date: 2013-05-23
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Industry:
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Melton, Harold D.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine T. Parvis, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S13A0161
The trial court properly declined the defendant's request for a jury charge on voluntary manslaughter, since the defendant stated that he shot back at the victim out of fear which was "not the same