Brown v. State

Pope, Judge.

William A. E. Brown brings this appeal from his conviction and sentence of homicide by vehicle in the second degree, OCGA § 40-6-393 (b). Held:

1. Defendant’s first enumeration assigns error to the trial court’s repeating the instruction to the jury on vehicular homicide “because this repetitious instruction gave undue prominence to the State’s accusation.” We find no merit in this assertion.

“A mere repetition of a principle of law, while unnecessary, will not work a reversal unless it appears from the charge as a whole that there was such undue emphasis as to result in an unfair…