PHILLIPS v. STATE

17252.

207 Ga. 336 (1950)

61 S.E.2d 473

PHILLIPS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

October 11, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. C. Carson, for plaintiff in error.

Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Carey Skelton, Solicitor-General, R. L. Addleton and J. R. Parham, Assistant Attorneys-General, contra.


ALMAND, Justice.

Willie Phillips, under an indictment charging him with murder by shooting Ruth Wilhite with a shotgun, was found guilty without a recommendation and sentenced to death by electrocution. His motion for a new trial as amended was overruled, and the case is now before us for review.

1. The trial judge approved only ground 3 of the amendment to the motion for a new trial. This ground asserts that the State's evidence failed "wholly and completely...

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