SKRINE v. STATE

35213.

244 Ga. 520 (1979)

260 S.E.2d 909

SKRINE v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 23, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin Skrine, pro se.

Lewis N. Slaton, District Attorney, Joseph J. Drolet, Assistant District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Staff Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


HALL, Justice.

Skrine's single enumeration of error on appeal from his murder conviction is the giving of a charge which he asserts was burden-shifting under Sandstrom v. Montana, ___ U. S. ___ (99 S.C. 2450, 61 LE2d 39) (1979).

His jury were charged in language very similar to Code § 26-604 that there was a presumption "that a person intends to accomplish the natural and probable consequences of his acts ......

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