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HIGHTOWER v. STATE

S89P0575.

259 Ga. 770 (1989)

386 S.E.2d 509

HIGHTOWER v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied December 22, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Waddell, Emerson, George & Buice, Hulane E. George, B. Carl Buice, for appellant.

Joseph H. Briley, District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, C. A. Benjamin Woolf, for appellee.

GREGORY, Justice.

This is a death penalty case. The defendant, John Hightower was convicted by a jury in Morgan County on three counts of murder and sentenced to death on all three counts. We affirm.1

1. The defendant was married to Dorothy Hightower. Her brother stopped by their home early in the morning of July 12, 1987, to pick up his daughter...

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