Johnson v. State

Hall, Justice.

This is an appeal from a murder conviction and life sentence. Johnson did not deny the shooting, but claimed it was done in self-defense because of his fear that the victim might use some karate moves on him, take his gun away, and kill him.

The sole enumeration of error was the admission into evidence, over objection, of an investigating officer’s testimony that when he arrived at the scene of the shooting, "I heard a remark from someone in the crowd, I don’t know who it was, someone stated that 'Head didn’t have any business shooting that boy like that.’ ” The officer then…