JOHNSON v. STATE

S22A0025.

873 S.E.2d 123 (2022)

JOHNSON v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: May 17, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holly Yelton Peace , Manning Peace, LLC, 153 Senoia Road, Peachtree City, Georgia 30269, for Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Michael Alexander Oldham , Assistant Attorney General Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Anita Reynolds Howard , District Attorney, Cara Raye Fiore , A.D.A., Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, 661 Mulberry Street, Macon, Georgia 31201, for Appellee.


Following a jury trial, Hymetheus Johnson was convicted of one count of malice murder and one count of theft by taking in connection with the shooting death of Javontae Passard.1 Johnson appeals, alleging that the trial court erred in refusing to give a requested jury instruction on voluntary manslaughter...

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