Chancellor v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Shulman, Chief Judge.
Appellant was tried for the murder of her husband’s paramour and was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Asserting 55 enumerations of error, she now appeals from the judgment entered on that verdict. We affirm.
1. The bulk of appellant’s enumerations are concerned with the content of the trial court’s instructions to the jury. Appellant uses 13 enumerations of error alone to impress upon this court the trial court’s failure to charge the jury on the law of justification. We agree with the trial court’s decision that none of appellant’s requested charges on…
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