Court of Appeals of Georgia November 27, 2012, A12A0806 (Ransom v. State)

Branch, Judge.

Following a jury trial, Timothy Lamar Ransom was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault1 and three counts of aggravated battery.2 Ransom now appeals from the denial of his motion for a new trial, asserting that the trial court erred in failing to grant a mistrial following the inadvertent admission of evidence of Ransom’s bad character and in refusing to instruct the jury on