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THOMAS v. STATE

36046.

245 Ga. 688 (1980)

267 S.E.2d 253

THOMAS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided April 23, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Dorsey, for appellant.

Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Carole E. Wall, Assistant District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, W. Davis Hewitt, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

MARSHALL, Justice.

Donald Wayne Thomas, the appellant, was convicted in Fulton County Superior Court of the April 19, 1979, murder of Dewey Baugus, a nine-year-old child. He was sentenced to death, and this is his appeal.

From the evidence introduced at trial, the jury was authorized to find the following facts:

On April 11, 1979, Dewey Baugus and a playmate left his mother's home on Primrose Circle in Atlanta to go

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