EDWARDS v. STATE

30299.

235 Ga. 603 (1975)

221 S.E.2d 28

EDWARDS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided November 24, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn Zell, for appellant.

Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Carole E. Wall, Assistant District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, John W. Dunsmore, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


JORDAN, Justice.

Appellant, Catherine Edwards, appeals from her conviction of murder and life sentence.

1. At trial a witness for the state testified that he witnessed the shooting, that appellant and her husband were quarrelling while standing in the parking lot of a liquor store and that as her husband turned and walked away, she shot him four times with a .38 revolver. Appellant admitted killing her husband, but claimed that she did so in self-defense....

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