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Broussard v. State

Citations

  • 576 S.E.2d 883
  • 276 Ga. 216
  • 2003 Ga. LEXIS 118

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  • Where no construction of the evidence would support a finding that the defendant shot in self-defense, the trial court properly refused to charge on that affirmative defense.
  • “^Justification is an affirmative defense whereby the defendant admits acting with the intent to inflict an injury, but claims that he did so while in reasonable fear of suffering immediate serious harm to himself or another”
  • person firing gun into a crowd of people guilty of murder

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Judges: Carley

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