Legal Opinion
McClure v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 7, 2019No. S18G1599PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
306 Ga. 856
FINAL COPY S18G1599. MCCLURE V. THE STATE. ELLINGTON, Justice. Following a jury trial, Carlos Richard McClure was found guilty of two counts of aggravated assault, see OCGA § 16-5-21 (a) (2),1 based on an indictment that charged him with assaulting Armando Cuevas and Jamie Thun with a lever-action BB rifle by aiming the gun at them. McClure requested that the jury be instructed on the affirmative defenses of justification in defense of self and justification in defense of habitation. The trial court refused to give the requested instructions on justification on the basis that…
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