1  The State sought the death penalty in this case. Following the sentencing phase of trial the jury recommended that the defendant be sentenced to life imprisonment.

2  This inmate served as the institution's cook. The victim normally released him from the dormitory at 3:00 a.m. to enable him to begin breakfast preparations. Ga.) APRIL TERM, 1983. 869 institution's car was later recovered in Albany, Georgia where it had been abandoned at a local motel. Several months later the defendant was arrested in Los Angeles, California on an unrelated offense. He waived extradition and returned to Mitchell County for trial of the offenses on appeal in this case.While in the custody of the Los Angeles police the defendant admitted killing the victim, but insisted that he had done so in self-defense. Upon his return to Georgia he gave statements relating to the victim's death on two separate occasions to a GBI agent. In his first statement the defendant maintained he had killed the victim in self-defense. The defendant explained that during the evening of May 12 another inmate had referred to the victim as "Hubert," a practice which the victim considered to be disrespectful, preferring to be called "Boss Lodge" by the inmates. The defendant stated that the victim mistakenly believed the defendant had called him "Hubert" and followed the defendant to the inmate store. The defendant alleged that when the victim raised a bottle to strike the defendant, the defendant drew a knife he had hidden in the store and stabbed the victim. The defendant then removed the victim's keys and escaped in the institution's car. Shortly thereafter he stopped and changed into some "free world" clothes he had hidden in the store, discarded his prison attire, and drove to Albany. He then took a bus to Atlanta where he changed to a bus to Houston, Texas. From there he hitchhiked to California.In his second statement the defendant maintained that prior to the killing he had been under "great pressure" from other inmates who had accused him of shortchanging them in his operation of the inmate store; that as a result of this pressure he began thinking about escaping; that on the night of the victim's death he drew his knife and demanded that the victim lie down but that the victim resisted and a struggle ensued during which the victim was stabbed. The remainder of the defendant's statement tracks the first statement given to the GBI agent.All three statements were admitted in evidence at trial.During trial a fellow inmate testified that shortly before the murder the defendant related to the witness his intention to escape in the institution's car. The defendant also inquired of this witness the best method to hit a person to "knock him out."The State's medical expert testified that the victim had been stabbed seven times in his chest and abdomen and that he had also observed a number of "defensive wounds" on the victim's hands. The medical examiner testified that four of the stab wounds were in the victim's heart, any one of which could have resulted in his death.Each of the defendant's enumerations of error relates to the