DAVENPORT v. STATE

36176.

245 Ga. 845 (1980)

268 S.E.2d 337

DAVENPORT v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dozier, Daniel & Williams, J. Robert Daniel, for appellant.

Walker Johnson, District Attorney, Charles Weston, Assistant District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Staff Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


MARSHALL, Justice.

The defendant, Manual Grant Davenport, appeals from his conviction of murder, for which he received a life sentence.

1. There was evidence adduced, including the testimony of five eyewitnesses, from which the jury was authorized to find as follows. The appellant went to a tavern for the express purpose of confronting the victim and accusing him of complicity in a burglary of the house of the appellant's girl friend. As the ensuing argument...

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