PATRICK v. STATE

18121.

209 Ga. 645 (1953)

74 S.E.2d 848

PATRICK v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 24, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlisle Cobb, for plaintiff in error.

D. M. Pollock, Solicitor-General, Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, and Rubye G. Jackson, contra.


CANDLER, Justice.

A grand jury indicted Amos Patrick for murder. The indictment charged that he murdered Dora Mae Dupree in Clarke County, Georgia, on July 24, 1952, by cutting and stabbing her with a knife. On the trial, several eyewitnesses to the homicide testified that the accused came to a beauty shop in Athens where Dora Mae Dupree was working; that without any provocation, he cut and stabbed her some fifty-odd times with a knife, inflicting wounds from which...

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