Slaughter v. State

Carley, Justice.

A Fulton County jury found Marco Slaughter guilty of the malice murder of his cousin, Tairantae Slaughter. The trial court entered judgment of conviction and sentenced Slaughter to life imprisonment. A motion for new trial was denied on August 11, 2004, and Slaughter appeals, 1 enumerating as error only the general grounds.

Slaughter contends that the State failed to disprove the defenses of mistake of fact and self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt. The asserted mistake of fact was not a separate defense since it “concerned whether the victim was armed, and thus, whether…