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JOHNSON v. STATE

46646.

259 Ga. 235 (1989)

378 S.E.2d 859

JOHNSON v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided May 11, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Alexander, for appellant.

Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Nancy A. Grace, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, C. A. Benjamin Woolf, for appellee.

HUNT, Justice.

Gary Johnson was convicted for the murder of Deborah Nelson and the aggravated assault of Lamar Smallwood and Robert Moncus.1 He received a life sentence for the murder charge and 20 years imprisonment for each of the assault charges. He appeals, enumerating as error the trial court's charge on self-defense and the trial court's failure to charge the law of involuntary manslaughter.

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