PEEK v. STATE

38903.

250 Ga. 50 (1982)

295 S.E.2d 834

PEEK v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 19, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Cline, Jr., for appellant.

Joseph H. Briley, District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Janice G. Hildenbrand, Staff Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


GREGORY, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of the murder of his sixty-five- year-old mother, Lucille Peek Bennett, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Medical testimony indicated that the victim died from a wound to the neck area inflicted by a shotgun. A ballistics expert testified that the shot which killed the victim was fired from the defendant's 410 gauge bolt-action shotgun.

A radio dispatcher employed by the City of Union Point testified that on...

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