PIERCE v. STATE

31480.

238 Ga. 126 (1977)

231 S.E.2d 744

PIERCE v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided January 4, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gibbs, Leaphart & Smith, T. Alvin Leaphart, for appellant.

Glenn Thomas, Jr., District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, John W. Dunsmore, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, for appellee.


UNDERCOFLER, Presiding Justice.

William J. Pierce, Jr. was tried and convicted for the murder of Helen Wilcox and received a life sentence. He appeals raising primarily the question of the voluntariness of his confession. We affirm.

1. On January 22, 1971, Sheriff Marcus Hall of Jeff Davis County received a phone call from Homer Wilcox reporting that his wife, Helen, was missing from their country grocery store. The sheriff himself had visited her in the store...

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