BELL v. STATE

S93G1112.

263 Ga. 776 (1994)

439 S.E.2d 480

BELL v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anna Blitz, for appellant.

Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Nancy A. Grace, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.


BENHAM, Justice.

Appellant Deric Bell was found guilty of trafficking in heroin and sentenced to life imprisonment. After reserving her objections to the trial court's instructions to the jury, defense counsel sought a mistrial on the ground that the prosecutor had injected prejudicial matters not in evidence by making reference to a drug-related, execution-style triple murder and to a serial rapist in her closing argument...

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