O'CONNOR v. State

Phipps, Judge.

A jury found Catherine Amanda O’Connor guilty of affray, aggravated assault, and voluntary manslaughter after she cut and killed Richard Seay during a fight. She contests the sufficiency of the evidence, jury instructions on her defense of justification, and the denial of her motion for new trial. Finding the evidence sufficient and finding no reversible error, we affirm.

Construed in a light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, the evidence showed that on March 27,1998, Michael Brown and his former girlfriend, Courtney Hulsey, engaged in heated arguments on the telephone.…