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SPRAGGINS v. STATE

32605.

240 Ga. 759 (1978)

243 S.E.2d 20

SPRAGGINS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 21, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Vernon Belcher, for appellant.

William F. Lee, Jr., District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, John W. Dunsmore, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

HILL, Justice.

This is a death case. The defendant Eddie Spraggins, along with Freddie Davis,1 was indicted in Meriwether County for the January 31, 1977, rape and murder of Miss Frances Coe. After a special jury found the defendant sane at time of trial, he was tried and found guilty on March 1 and 2, 1977, on both counts. Upon the jury's finding of a statutory aggravating circumstance to the murder charge, that the murder was committed...

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