Sapp v. Effingham County Board of Education

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

On November 23, 1987, plaintiff-appellant John Darien Sapp and defendant John Matthew Kessler had a confrontation in the lunchroom of defendant-appellee Effingham County High School, where both were students. Kessler was 14 years of age and Sapp, a senior, was over 18. Sapp deposed that Kessler initiated the altercation by threatening to spray him with a can of deodorant, after which words were exchanged. During a brief scuffle, Kessler cut Sapp with a pocketknife on the left hand between the third and fourth knuckles. A guidance counselor accompanied Sapp to the…