DURHAM v. STATE

32455.

239 Ga. 697 (1977)

238 S.E.2d 334

DURHAM v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 6, 1977.

Rehearing Denied September 28, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Greg Wolinski, Bennett, Pedrick & Bennett, E. Kontz Bennett, Jr., for appellant.

Dewey Hayes, District Attorney, M. C. Pritchard, Assistant District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Kirby G. Atkinson, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


MARSHALL, Justice.

Appellant, King David Durham, prosecutes this appeal from his conviction of murder in Ware County. For this offense he was sentenced to life in prison.

On the morning of March 9, 1976, shortly after 3 a. m., appellant came to the apartment of a neighbor in Waycross and stated that he had killed his wife. Appellant requested that the neighbor shoot him. When the neighbor declined to do so, appellant left. The neighbor called the police.<...

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