WARD v. STATE

30094.

234 Ga. 882 (1975)

218 S.E.2d 591

WARD v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 2, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Warner, for appellant.

Richard Bell, District Attorney, M. Randall Peek, Assistant District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, John W. Dunsmore, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


INGRAM, Justice.

Appellant was convicted after a jury trial in DeKalb Superior Court of the murders of Edward Surgalski and Sharynn Denise and sentenced to life imprisonment on both counts. The conviction must be reversed because of an erroneous charge on alibi.

The victims were employed at Vulcan Waterproofing Company in DeKalb County. They were both brutally murdered with a sharp instrument, either a sword or similar weapon, and their bodies discovered about...

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