Supreme Court of Georgia
Walker v. the State.
June 3, 2019829 S.E.2d 121
Summary
The court affirmed Walker's convictions for murder and related offenses arising from the shooting and stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend. It held that the evidence permitted the jury to reject self-defense and found any errors involving excluded hearsay, prior-acts evidence, and admission of a first-offender guilty plea harmless or adequately cured. The court also concluded that denying a mistrial was within the trial court's discretion because the jury received an appropriate curative instruction.