SUTTON v. STATE

31218.

237 Ga. 418 (1976)

228 S.E.2d 815

SUTTON v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 7, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanders, Mottola, Haugen, Wood & Goodson, Parnell Odom, for appellant.

William F. Lee, Jr., District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Daryl A. Robinson, for appellee.


UNDERCOFLER, Presiding Justice.

Willie Calvin Sutton was convicted by a jury on circumstantial evidence of the murders of his two apparently illegitimate infant daughters and for setting fire to his home to conceal the crimes. He received two consecutive life sentences for the murders and ten years for the arson to be served concurrently with the second life sentence. He appeals.

Appellant assigns as error the refusal of the trial judge to direct a verdict...

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