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GARNER v. STATE

No. S97A0460.

485 S.E.2d 729 (1997)

267 Ga. 884

GARNER v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

April 28, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley C. House, Augusta, for Garner.

Daniel J. Craig, Dist. Atty., Augusta, Michael J. Bowers, Atty. Gen., Paula K. Smith, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, and Charles R. Sheppard, Augusta, for the State.

FLETCHER, Presiding Justice.

A jury found Vincent Troy Garner guilty in the shooting death of Tony McCorkle.1 Garner claimed that he shot McCorkle in self-defense after McCorkle retrieved a gun from under his car seat. Because the trial court's instructions to the jury did not preclude it from considering Garner's self-defense theory, we affirm.

1. The evidence shows that McCorkle stopped his car on Lyman Street in Augusta, Georgia...

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