Smith v. State

Smith, Justice.

Gernard Smith was convicted in Chatham County of murder and given a life sentence. On appeal, Smith makes several contentions, involving admissibility of evidence, skips in the trial transcript, jury instructions, and state funds for independent psychiatric evaluations. We affirm.

Smith’s wife had been having an affair with the victim, Nathaniel Hamilton, for almost a year. At the time of the shooting in January 1980, Smith and his wife had not lived together for about two years, but were not divorced. On the night in question Smith went to his wife’s Savannah apartment with a…