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HOWARD v. STATE

No. S91A0168.

403 S.E.2d 204 (1991)

261 Ga. 251

HOWARD v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied May 13, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Allen, Augusta, for Howard.

J. Lane Johnston, Dist. Atty., Statesboro, Michael J. Bowers, Atty. Gen., C.A. Benjamin Woolf, Atty., State Law Dept., Atlanta, for State.

SMITH, Presiding Justice.

The appellant, Debra Suzanne Murray Howard, shot and killed Linda W. McCorvey with a handgun. She claimed that the shooting was in self-defense. Following a jury trial, Ms. Howard was found guilty of murder and she received a sentence of life imprisonment. We affirm.1

At the time of the shooting, Ms. Howard occupied the driver's seat of her parked automobile, while Gene Grim, the victim's boyfriend, occupied...

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