ROTINO v. STATE

46701.

259 Ga. 295 (1989)

380 S.E.2d 261

ROTINO v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 22, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon Staples, for appellant.

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


GREGORY, Justice.

Michael L. Rotino was convicted of the murder of his wife, Carlene Faye Rotino, and sentenced to life imprisonment.1 The evidence at trial authorized the jury to find that on the night of December 5, 1987, the defendant was visiting neighbors. He had been drinking most of the afternoon and night, and according to the neighbors' testimony, was angry when he left their trailer. Within fifteen minutes of his departure the...

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