DAVIS v. STATE

29962.

234 Ga. 730 (1975)

218 S.E.2d 20

DAVIS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided July 2, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Nuckolls, Harold A. Horne, for appellant.

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


HALL, Justice.

The appellant was indicted by a Fulton County Grand Jury for the June 25, 1974 murder of Nicky Willingham; his two-year-old stepson. He was found guilty of murder in a jury trial and sentenced to life imprisonment. This appeal is filed subsequent to denial of motion for a new trial. The autopsy showed that the child whose lower back was marked with recent thermal scalds, died of drowning. The appellant contends that he was bathing the boy to clean him...

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