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STEPHENS v. STATE

S90A0153.

259 Ga. 820 (1990)

388 S.E.2d 519

STEPHENS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 15, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Knight, for appellant.

Britt R. Priddy, District Attorney, John L. Tracy, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, for appellee.

CLARKE, Chief Justice.

Stephens was convicted of the murder of his common law wife and sentenced to life imprisonment.1 The evidence showed that Stephens shot his estranged wife through the window of her trailer. She would not open the door to him when he went to investigate the report of a neighbor that she was with another man. At trial he said, "I don't know what happened ... the first thing that I knowed I had done shot her and I didn...

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