In Re QML

570 S.E.2d 92 (2002)

257 Ga. App. 22

In the Interest of Q.M.L., a child.

No. A02A1127.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

August 9, 2002.

Valerie Brown-Williams, Albany, for appellant.

Kenneth B. Hodges III, Dist. Atty., Heidi M. Silcox, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.

MILLER, Judge.

Fourteen-year-old Q.M.L. admitted that she stabbed a schoolmate with a knife but claimed she did so in self-defense. Evidence showed that the weaponless victim hit Q.M.L. from behind while Q.M.L. sat in the school bus, in response to which Q.M.L. elbowed the victim, stood up, turned around, and stabbed the victim with a knife…