DRAKE v. STATE

23122.

221 Ga. 347 (1965)

144 S.E.2d 519

DRAKE v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 22, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Davis, James V. Pleasants, for plaintiff in error.

Herbert B. Kimzey, Solicitor General, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Rubye G. Jackson, Assistant Attorney General, contra.


DUCKWORTH, Chief Justice.

The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted of murder with a recommendation of mercy. A motion for new trial was duly filed and amended to add several special grounds, and after a hearing the same was overruled, and the exception is to that judgment. The State offered evidence that the accused shot the deceased while the deceased and the defendant were hunting separately in the mountains of North Georgia, the defendant admitting to the...

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