REEVES v. STATE

30513.

237 Ga. 1 (1976)

226 S.E.2d 567

REEVES et al. v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 8, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Phillips, Jr., Eva L. Sloan, Milton F. Gardner, for appellants.

Joseph A. Briley, District Attorney, Donald W. Huskins, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.


GUNTER, Justice.

Ella Louise Carroll, Robert Reeves, and Willie J. Johnson, Jr., were tried and convicted of the murder of Chester Pitts and received life sentences. Separate trial counsel was appointed for each of the appellants, and the same three attorneys have represented them in their motion for new trial and in this appeal.

On April 4, 1974, Chester Pitts was fatally stabbed and thereafter died of the wound. There were no eyewitnesses to the stabbing...

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