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MURPHY v. STATE

No. S98G1856.

515 S.E.2d 148 (1999)

270 Ga. 880

MURPHY v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

April 12, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Valerie Carl Thomason, Thomason & Blackmon, P.C., Carrollton, for Travis Santel Murphy.

Peter J. Skandalakis, Dist. Atty., LaGrange, Kevin Wayne Drummond, Asst. Dist. Atty., Carrollton, for the State.

James C. Bonner, Jr., Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Nicholas A. Lotito, Davis, Zipperman, Kirschenbaum & Lotito, Atlanta, for amici curiae.

HUNSTEIN, Justice.

Travis Santel Murphy was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his cousin, Willie Harrison III. He appealed contending, inter alia, that the trial court erred by refusing to give his written request to charge regarding a criminal defendant's election not to testify. The Court of Appeals recognized that the trial court erred by failing to give the timely requested and legally correct charge, but held the failure to be harmless...

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