Publication Date: 2013-07-18
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hines, P. Harris
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neil A. Smith, General Counsel, and John W. Kraus Public Defender's Office, Jonesboro, for appellant.
for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Frances C. Kuo, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and David A. Bikoff, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S13A0068
The trial court properly denied the defendant's request for a jury charge on involuntary manslaughter, since there was undisputed evidence that his infant died from blunt force trauma and not from a