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COLEY v. STATE

28131.

231 Ga. 829 (1974)

204 S.E.2d 612

COLEY v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided March 8, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hill, Jones & Farrington, John D. Mattox, Bobby Hill, for appellant.

W. Glenn Thomas, Jr., District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Courtney Wilder Stanton, Assistant Attorney General, David J. Bailey, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

We decide in this case the constitutionality of Ga. L. 1973, p. 159, et seq. (Code Ann. § 27-2534.1 et seq.) authorizing the imposition of the death penalty in Georgia under certain circumstances for specified crimes. The appeal represents an attack upon Georgia's death penalty revived by the 1973 General Assembly following its demise by virtue of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Furman v. Georgia and Jackson v. Georgia, ...

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