State v. Beatty

STROUD, Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of voluntary manslaughter. Defendant appeals. The issues before this Court are whether the trial court erred (1) in refusing to give defendant’s proposed jury instruction and (2) in admitting a notebook into evidence. For the following reasons, we find no error.

I. Background

The State’s evidence tended to show the following: On 11 January 2005, Calib Thomas (“Thomas”), Antonio Dent (“Dent”), and several other boys were at the Joy Store Food Mart (“Food Mart”) when they saw “two dudes riding on bikes . . . throwing gang signs” which they…