HINES v. STATE

20568.

215 Ga. 421 (1959)

110 S.E.2d 645

HINES v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 14, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Barker, for plaintiff in error.

Andrew J. Ryan, Jr., Solicitor-General, Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Rubye G. Jackson, Deputy Assistant Attorney-General, contra.


ALMAND, Justice.

Under an indictment charging him with the murder of Betty Flatham Thompson by strangling and choking her to death, Charles F. Hines, Jr., was on his trial found guilty without a recommendation of mercy, and was sentenced to death by electrocution. His motion for a new trial on the general and amended grounds was denied. To the order denying a new trial his writ of error is here for review.

1. The first ground of the amended motion assigns...

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