GRACE v. STATE

28073.

231 Ga. 113 (1973)

200 S.E.2d 248

GRACE v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 20, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jean Sonne, for appellant.

Fred M. Hasty, District Attorney, Walker P. Johnson, Walter Matthews, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Courtney Wilder Stanton, Daniel I. MacIntyre, Assistant Attorneys General, B. Dean Grindle, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


GRICE, Presiding Justice.

The appellant Hamp Grace was tried and convicted for the murder of Winnie Mae Watson in the Superior Court of Bibb County and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The appellant's sole defense upon the trial was insanity at the time of the commission of the offense. He introduced into evidence an "Application for Hospitalization of a Mentally Ill Person" and a physician's certificate dated November 27, 1967, certifying the appellant to...

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