FARMER, Judge.
We reverse a conviction for aggravated battery with a firearm and remand for a new trial. It was error for the trial judge to permit the victim to testify that there was "talk amongst the people in [the] neighborhood" that defendant intended to kill him.
Brown and James, brothers-in-law, were involved in a dispute over James stealing some crack cocaine from Brown. In a confrontation outside a grocery store Brown shot James, paralyzing him. Brown...
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