SMITH v. STATE

39715.

251 Ga. 229 (1983)

304 S.E.2d 716

SMITH v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided July 7, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Terry Jackson, for appellant.

Spencer Lawton, Jr., District Attorney, David T. Lock, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


SMITH, Justice.

Gernard Smith was convicted in Chatham County of murder and given a life sentence. On appeal, Smith makes several contentions, involving admissibility of evidence, skips in the trial transcript, jury instructions, and state funds for independent psychiatric evaluations. We affirm.

Smith's wife had been having an affair with the victim, Nathaniel Hamilton, for almost a year. At the time of the shooting in January 1980, Smith and his wife had...

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