Barton-Smith v. State

309 Ga. 799

FINAL COPY S20A0941. BARTON-SMITH v. THE STATE. BLACKWELL, Justice. Khaleil Barton-Smith was tried by a Rockdale County jury and convicted of murder and other crimes in connection with the fatal shooting of Alexander Hunter. Barton-Smith appeals, contending that the trial court erred when it denied his request to charge the jury on voluntary manslaughter as a lesser offense and when it interrupted his lawyer’s cross-examination of a witness. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.1 1 Hunter was killed on May 25, 2014. In October 2014, a grand jury indicted Barton-Smith, charging…