Tarver v. State

319 Ga. 165

FINAL COPY S24A0521. TARVER v. THE STATE. MCMILLIAN, Justice. Ricquavious Tarver was convicted of murder and other crimes in connection with the shooting death of Roosevelt Demmons.1 Tarver argues on appeal that (1) the trial court erred in excluding evidence of Tarver’s knowledge of Demmons’s previous acts of violence to support his claim of self-defense and (2) the trial court erred in excluding, on the grounds of hearsay, the video-recorded 1 Demmons was killed on August 27, 2016, and Tarver was charged by special presentment in McDuffie County in June 2017 for malice murder…