HUTCHESON v. STATE

36187.

246 Ga. 13 (1980)

268 S.E.2d 643

HUTCHESON v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larsen & Lewis, William Washington Larsen, Jr., for appellant.

H. R. Thompson, District Attorney, Richard A. Malone, Assistant District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, for appellee.


UNDERCOFLER, Chief Justice.

Hutcheson was convicted of the murder of his fiancee and sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals, enumerating six errors. We reverse.

1. It was error for the trial court to refuse to dismiss from the jury panel for cause two Vidalia police officers, Carolyn C. Calhoun and Sgt. John Ward. Both appeared in court in police uniform when summoned to serve on the panel of 42 prospective jurors from which appellant's jury was to be...

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