State v. Hodges

Hines, Justice.

This Court granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Hodges v. State, 311 Ga. App. 46 (714 SE2d 717) (2011), to consider whether that Court erred in holding that the defendant should have been allowed to present evidence in support of his justification defense about a previous incident of violence allegedly committed by the victim against third parties, where the defendant claimed that he had heard of the previous incident but did not witness it or have any other evidence in support of the claim. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the holding was in error, and we…