Garner v. State

Fletcher, Presiding Justice.

A jury found Vincent Troy Garner guilty in the shooting death of Tony McCorkle. Garner claimed that he shot McCorkle in self-defense after McCorkle retrieved a gun from under his car seat. Because the trial court’s instructions to the jury did not preclude it from considering Garner’s self-defense theory, we affirm.

1. The evidence shows that McCorkle stopped his car on Lyman Street in Augusta, Georgia. After McCorkle refused to buy drugs from Garner, Garner pulled a .38 pistol from behind him and shot once at McCorkle. McCorkle cranked up his car and fell over as…