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BELL v. STATE

46763.

259 Ga. 272 (1989)

381 S.E.2d 514

BELL v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 8, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Michael Key, for appellant.

William G. Hamrick, Jr., District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, C. A. Benjamin Woolf, for appellee.

SMITH, Justice.

Bell was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.1 In this appeal, he raises the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel. We affirm.

The ineffectiveness issue was not raised in the trial court during either the motion for new trial or the motion for an out-of-time appeal. Neither was it later raised in the trial court before appeal by new counsel as is directed by Thompson v. State,

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