State v. Gordon

WYNN, Judge.

The State’s evidence tended to show that defendant and the victim, Suzanne Jackson, argued about defendant’s boyfriend on 10 September 1989. The next evening, defendant was sitting in or on a friend’s car in her apartment complex parking lot about thirty feet from Jackson’s front door when Jackson came outside. Defendant yelled remarks to her but did not approach her. Thereafter, Jackson walked towards defendant and said “if you want to fight, we’ll fight.” In response, defendant jumped out of the car, ran across the street, and apparently obtained a gun from the hand of her uncle…