ELDRIDGE, Judge.
In challenging a Muscogee County jury verdict finding him guilty of aggravated assault, Walter L. Gibson contends that he received ineffective assistance of counsel because his trial attorney (a) failed to raise the issue of Gibson's alleged mental illness in relation to the voluntary nature of his confession; and (b) raised a defense of justification, instead of a defense of guilty but mentally ill. We find these contentions meritless.
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