Sheats v. State
Decision Date | 21 October 1993 |
Docket Number | No. A93A1513,A93A1513 |
Citation | 436 S.E.2d 796,210 Ga.App. 622 |
Parties | SHEATS v. The STATE. |
Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Omotayo B. Alli, Atlanta, for appellant.
Lewis R. Slaton, Dist. Atty., Carl P. Greenberg, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.
Sheats was charged and convicted of aggravated assault, and appeals.
Viewing the facts in the light most favorable to the verdict, Sheats stabbed victim Williams with a butcher knife several times. Williams testified that he was not carrying a knife at the time of the incident and that Sheats instigated the conflict. Williams stated that when Sheats stabbed him, he had keys in his hand.
Sheats and another witness testified that Williams attacked Sheats first. Sheats, who admitted that he had been drinking that evening, stated that he acted in self-defense.
1. In his first enumeration of error, citing Edge v. State, 261 Ga. 865, 867(2), 414 S.E.2d 463 (1992), Sheats claims that the trial court erred in giving sequential charges on aggravated assault and reckless conduct. Sheats contends that by giving these charges sequentially, the trial court precluded the jury from considering the reckless conduct charge as to which a verdict was warranted.
This enumeration is without merit. (Citations, punctuation and emphasis omitted.) McGill v. State, 263 Ga. 81, 428 S.E.2d 341 (1993). "The evil which Edge seeks to cure is not present in the case before us." Stewart v. State, 262 Ga. 894, 896, 426 S.E.2d 367 (1993); see also Philmore v. State, 263 Ga. 67(5), 428 S.E.2d 329 (1993). The jury's finding that Sheats committed aggravated assault under OCGA § 16-5-21 required a finding of an intentional infliction of injury, which precluded the element of criminal negligence in reckless conduct under OCGA § 16-5-60. See generally Bowers v. State, 177 Ga.App. 36(1), 338 S.E.2d 457 (1985). 1
2. In his second enumeration, Sheats raises general grounds and claims that the trial court erred in denying his motion for new trial since the verdict was contrary to the evidence and law. (Citation and punctuation omitted.) Johnson v. State, 204 Ga.App. 277, 279(3), 419 S.E.2d 118 (1992); see generally ...
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