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GAITHER v. STATE

46394.

259 Ga. 200 (1989)

378 S.E.2d 464

GAITHER v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided May 4, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Nevell Owens, for appellant.

Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Richard E. Hicks, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

BELL, Justice.

The appellant, Gus Gaither, was convicted of the malice murder of his fiancee's five-year-old son and of cruelty to children. Gaither received a life sentence for murder and a ten-year prison term for cruelty to children, to run concurrent with the life sentence.1 Gaither now appeals, contending that the trial court improperly restricted his cross-examination of a state's witness and that the evidence is insufficient to...

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