Bobby Joe Baisden appeals his conviction of the malice murder of Aaron Robert Williams, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. 1 We affirm. When Baisden and his common-law wife returned home in the evening from a jazz festival, they found the victim, who was Baisden's long-time friend, sitting on their front porch, extremely intoxicated. Because of his drunken condition, the victim was allowed to spend the night on the couch. Drunk again, the next morning, the victim was watching television. Baisden asked him either to be quiet or to leave. The victim replied, "My name is Forty-five, and I'm not going nowhere [sic] until I finish watching this." Baisden got a revolver, returned, and shot the victim once in the head. The victim died of a gunshot wound to his head. Baisden admitted having shot the victim, claiming accident, i.e., that he shot to scare rather than to kill. 1. Construing the evidence in a light most favorable to the jury's verdict, we conclude that a rational trier of fact could have found the appellant guilty of murder beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979). 2. In his sole enumeration of error, the appellant contends that the court erred in instructing the jury that malice shall be implied where no considerable provocation appears and where all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart, which charge, he contends, deprived him of his only defense, accident. Glenn Thomas, Jr., District Attorney, John B. Johnson III, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Andrew S. Ree, for appellee. |