TUCKER v. STATE

38318.

249 Ga. 323 (1982)

TUCKER v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided April 13, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilmore, Waddell & Phillips, Thomas J. Phillips, Jr., for appellant.

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


HILL, Presiding Justice.

Juanita "Gail" Harden Tucker was convicted of the murder of John Henry "Horace" Butts and received a life sentence.

The state showed that the defendant and the victim were sitting in his car outside a local grocery and nightclub between eight and nine o'clock on December 7, 1980, when the victim's wife arrived and she told the defendant to get out of the car and leave her husband alone. The defendant went into the club and, after a...

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