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JOHNSON v. STATE

No. S07A0277.

642 S.E.2d 827 (2007)

JOHNSON v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

March 26, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Joseph Walker, Jonesboro, for Appellant.

Jewel Charmain Scott, Dist. Atty., Tiffany Collette Boulware, Asst. Dist. Atty., Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Edwina M. Watkins, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Appellee.

MELTON, Justice.

Following a jury trial, Frederick Darnell Johnson appeals his convictions for felony murder and cruelty to children, arguing that he received ineffective assistance of counsel and that the trial court erred by not recharging the jury on the affirmative defenses of accident and reasonable discipline of a minor.1 We affirm.

1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the record shows that, in the early...

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