Supreme Court of Georgia September 14, 1998, S98A1023 (Mobley v. State)

Fletcher, Presiding Justice.

A jury convicted Tommye Donell Jonquil Mobley of the shooting death of Waldrick Carroll, Jr.

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Mobley claimed that he shot Carroll as a result of the battered person syndrome, but the trial court refused

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to permit an expert to state her opinion that Mobley suffered from the syndrome, allow Mobley to present evidence of Carroll’s acts of violence against third