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SMITH v. STATE

No. S96G1914.

486 S.E.2d 819 (1997)

268 Ga. 196

SMITH v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

July 14, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Lane, Macon, for Smith.

Fredric Daniel Bright, Dist. Atty., Stephen A. Bradley, Asst. Dist. Atty., Milledgeville, for the State.

James C. Bonner, Jr., Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta, Nicholas A. Lotito, Davis Zipperman Kirschenbaum & Lotito, Atlanta, Amicus Appellant.

THOMPSON, Justice.

Vernita Smith, charged with malice murder, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of her husband. The Court of Appeals rejected defendant's assertion that the trial court committed reversible error in refusing to give her requested jury instructions on the battered woman syndrome. Smith v. State, 222 Ga.App. 412(2), 474 S.E.2d 291 (1996). We granted...

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