Jones (George Michael) v. State

The defendant asserts as error the trial court’s refusal to give a requested jury instruction on a lesser-included offense of homicide by intoxicated user of a firearm; the admission in evidence and sending to the jury the bloodstained nightgown of the victim; and the refusal to allow the defendant to testify as to the period of time he had been sexually intimate with the victim.

He has requested a new trial in the interest of justice because of claimed prosecutorial misconduct and the reading of only a portion of a witness’ testimony upon request of the jury during its deliberation.

The…