BURKE v. STATE

39083.

250 Ga. 235 (1982)

297 S.E.2d 247

BURKE v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided November 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Huskins, for appellant.

Joseph H. Briley, District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


WELTNER, Justice.

Ola Mae Burke was convicted in Putnam for the murder of her husband, Walter Lee Burke, by shooting him with a pistol, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Her three enumerations of error present the single question of whether certain testimony adduced by the state impermissibly placed her character in evidence.

Mrs. Burke found her husband outside a local nightclub in conversation with a female friend. When he twice refused to reveal to her...

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