Sloan v. State, A94A1846
Decision Date | 05 October 1994 |
Docket Number | No. A94A1846,A94A1846 |
Citation | 214 Ga.App. 784,449 S.E.2d 328 |
Parties | SLOAN v. The STATE. |
Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Stanley C. House, Augusta, for appellant.
Carl L. Sloan, pro se.
Daniel J. Craig, Dist. Atty., Charles R. Sheppard, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.
Defendant was charged via indictment with aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The evidence adduced at a jury trial shows that defendant shot Clifton Thomas with a handgun, wounding him in the head and shoulder. Defendant's request for an out-of-time appeal was granted and defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction and sentences. Held:
1. In his first and second enumerations, defendant contends the trial court erred in allowing the victim's brother, Antoine Thomas, and the witness Jonathan Brown, to relate evidence of prior difficulties with defendant, arguing that the State failed to establish the necessary elements of "perpetrator identity, and permissible purpose, and relevancy, and similarity of the acts."
According to the State's pretrial notice of intent to introduce evidence of prior incidents, there were four instances of prior difficulties between the witness Antoine Thomas and the defendant, each occurring in April 1993. Two of these prior instances also involved Clifton Thomas, the aggravated assault victim in this case. In two of those prior difficulties, defendant had allegedly brandished a gun. After a hearing, the trial court allowed the proffered evidence to be admitted.
Bohannon v. State, 208 Ga.App. 576, 578(2), 580(2)(b), 431 S.E.2d 149. In the case sub judice, defendant's previous difficulties with the victim Tharpe v. State, 262 Ga. 110, 112(7), 416 S.E.2d 78. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting this evidence of prior difficulties. Bohannon v. State, 208 Ga.App. 576, 580(2)(b), 431 S.E.2d 149, supra. Consequently, defendant's first two enumerations are without merit.
2. Defendant contends in his third enumeration the trial court erred in "failing to instruct the jury to limit its consideration of evidence of prior incidents to the purpose for which such evidence was admitted...." However, defendant made no oral or written request for such limiting instruction before the case went to the jury. " (Emphasis in original.) Thomas v. State, 199 Ga.App. 49, 50(4), 404 S.E.2d 315. In the case sub judice, we cannot say that the failure of the trial court to give, sua sponte, a limiting instruction on the purposes for which the prior difficulties' evidence was admitted ...
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