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GRIFFIN v. STATE

No. S97A0888.

486 S.E.2d 179 (1997)

268 Ga. 177

GRIFFIN v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

June 30, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace Kimbrell Sawyer, III, Sawyer & Sawyer, Ringgold, for Larry W. Griffin, Jr.

Chris A. Arnt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Lafayette, Herbert E. Franklin, Jr., Dist. Atty., Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Christopher S. Brasher, Asst. Atty. Gen., Paula K. Smith, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, for the State.

FLETCHER, Presiding Justice.

Larry William Griffin, Jr., was convicted of the murder of Jerry Allen Tindle.1 At trial Griffin claimed that he killed Tindle in self defense. Because there was no error in the jury charge or verdict form, we affirm.

Griffin testified at trial that he and Tindle were walking along railroad tracks and drinking beer when Tindle swung at him with a quart beer bottle. Griffin ducked, hit Tindle three times...

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