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ARKWRIGHT v. SMITH

24895.

224 Ga. 764 (1968)

164 S.E.2d 796

ARKWRIGHT v. SMITH, Warden, et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided November 8, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aaron Kravitch, E. H. Gadsden, Bobby Hill, for appellant.

Cohen Anderson, J. Max Cheney, Solicitors General, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Marion O. Gordon, Assistant Attorney General, Courtney Wilder Stanton, for appellee.

DUCKWORTH, Chief Justice.

1. Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510 (88 S.C. 1770, 20 LE2d 776), holds that "a sentence of death cannot be carried out if the jury that imposed or recommended it was chosen by excluding veniremen for cause simply because they voiced general objections to the death penalty or expressed conscientious or religious scruples against its infliction," and the Supreme Court specifically made its decision "fully...

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