FERGUSON v. STATE

20446.

215 Ga. 117 (1959)

109 S.E.2d 44

FERGUSON v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided May 8, 1959.

Rehearing Denied June 5, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul James Maxwell, for plaintiff in error.

Dan Winn, Solicitor-General, John T. Perren, Assistant Solicitor-General, Robert J. Noland, Eugene B. Brown, Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Rubye G. Jackson, Deputy Assistant Attorney-General, contra.


HAWKINS, Justice.

Billy Ferguson was convicted in Douglas Superior Court of murder without a recommendation, and sentenced to death by electrocution. The record discloses that, on July 17, 1958, at about 7:30 o'clock a. m., the defendant went to the place of business of Luke A. Brown and employed him to repair the radio in the defendant's automobile; that while there he took a pistol hanging on a nail in Brown's place of business and put it in his pocket; that, after...

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