GA 16-3-21 - GA 16-3-21

Mutual Combat Mutual combat situation contemplated by section. - Designed to simplify and give order to previously disparate points of law, former Code 1933, § 26-902 contemplates situation of mutual combat where the defendant reasonably believes that use of deadly force to prevent death or great bodily harm to self or a third person, is necessary. Trask v. State, 132 Ga. App. 645 , 208 S.E.2d 591 (1974). What constitutes mutual combat. - Mutual combat appears sufficiently where it is shown that there was a mutual intent to fight, and one or more blows were struck. Bailey v. State, 148 Ga. 401 , 96 S.E. 862 (1918) (decided under former Penal Code 1910, §§ 70, 71). Mutual combat exists where there is a fight and both parties are willing to fight. Slocumb v. State, 157 Ga. 131 , 121 S.E. 116...