HEARN v. STATE

55365.

145 Ga. App. 469 (1978)

243 S.E.2d 728

HEARN v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided March 16, 1978.

Rehearing Denied March 30, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elkins, Flournoy & Gemmette, Paul R. Gemmette, James A. Elkins, Jr., for appellant.

E. Mullins Whisnant, District Attorney, William J. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.


BANKE, Judge.

The appellant was indicted for murder after she shot and killed her husband during an argument in their home. She was convicted of voluntary manslaughter as a lesser included offense and filed this direct appeal.

1. It was not error to overrule the appellant's motion for directed verdict of acquittal, although her own account of the incident, in which she claimed that she had acted in self-defense, was the only evidence identifying her as the...

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