Keller v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Undercofler, Chief Justice.
On December 22,1978, appellant shot ánd killed her husband while he lay sleeping. She then called police and told them she committed the crime. At trial, her defense was justification. A jury convicted her of murder and she was sentenced to life imprisonment. She appeals, enumerating five errors. We affirm.
1. Appellant claims error because the trial judge, when defining justifiable homicide, also read to the jury subsection (b) of Code Ann. § 26-902. She asserts there was no evidence to which this portion of the charge was applicable and it tended to confuse the…
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- Highland v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1972
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