Willie Floyd Hicks was convicted by a Spalding County jury of aggravated assault. His motion for new trial was denied, and he appeals, asserting as error the general grounds and the admission into evidence of his statement to police. Finding no error, we affirm. 1. We first consider Hicks’s assertion of the general grounds. Construed to support the verdict, the evidence shows that Hicks, the victim’s boyfriend, lived with the victim and her daughter and paid rent to her. On the night of the incident, Hicks demanded sex from the victim, who told him that she was putting her daughter to bed and would be with him when the child fell asleep. After her daughter went to sleep, the victim went into the room where Hicks was, and he suddenly hit her in the temple with a flashlight. When she tried to crawl away, Hicks began to cut the victim repeatedly on the arms, body, and leg while shouting and threatening to kill her. The victim testified that no one else but her daughter was in the house. Hicks eventually stopped attacking her when her daughter exclaimed, “Stop cutting my Mama. Leave my Mama alone.” The victim’s daughter helped her across the street to a neighbor’s home, where the neighbor bandaged her and called an ambulance. Photographs of the victim’s wounds, which required numerous stitches and staples, were displayed to the jury. Hicks gave a statement to the police in which he said that he found the victim in the house with another man and that “she was going to try to get away and that is when I done my work.”
Hicks took the stand and testified that he was 74 years old and had a hearing problem, trouble with his eyesight, and no education. He stated that he cannot make out faces and can read “not n’er a letter.” He testified that he came home and found the victim “sitting on the sofa with another man.” The man ran out, and the victim attacked Hicks with a beer bottle, striking him in the head. Hicks pulled out his pocket knife and “just went to sticking . . . to keep her off of me.” Then he left and went back to his sister’s house.
