Smith v. Georgia
Annotate this CaseAppellant Jill Smith appealed her convictions for malice murder and other related crimes regarding the October 22, 2010, death of her husband Mike Smith in a house fire. She and an accomplice stood accused for setting the fire in which her husband died from smoke inhalation and burns over ninety percent of his body. On appeal, Smith challenged the sufficiency of the evidence presented at trial against her. She also argued that the trial court erred, among other things, in refusing to give a requested jury instruction relating to the defense of accident. Finding no reversible error, the Supreme Court affirmed her convictions.
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