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Ransom v. State

Although the trial court did not provide a curative instruction immediately after the introduction of an improperly redacted transcript, it did so as soon as defense counsel raised its objection, and it also polled the jurors as to their ability to disregard that evidence.

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Following a jury trial, Timothy Lamar Ransom was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault1 and three counts of aggravated battery.2 Ransom now appeals from the denial of his motion for a new trial, asserting that the trial court erred in failing to grant a mistrial following the inadvertent admission of evidence of Ransom’s bad character and in refusing to instruct the jury on the law of self-defense. We find no error and affirm.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, Goolsby v. State, 299 Ga. App. 330-331 682 SE2d 671 2009, the record shows that Mario Freeman arranged for appellant to purchase approximately two pounds of marijuana from a third party. Ransom, together with his brother Michael, Freeman, and another acquaintance, Robert Hull, went together to the apartment complex where the drug transaction was scheduled to occur. After arriving in the parking lot of the complex, Ransom gave $2,400 in cash to Freeman. He then remained in the parking lot while Freeman and Hull went into the designated apartment, where they were robbed at gunpoint. Freeman returned to Ransom without the drugs or the money and explained what had happened, whereupon Ransom became very angry about the loss of his money.

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