Court of Appeals of Georgia December 23, 2002, A03A0050 (Burdette v. State)

Blackburn, Chief Judge.

Following his conviction by a jury of three acts of family violence battery, Curtis Wayne Burdette appeals, arguing that the trial court erred: (1) in failing to charge the jury on accident; (2) in allowing the State to refer to his pre-arrest silence and his failure to come forward and give the police his side of the story; (3) in sustaining the State’s objection to his