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MERCADO v. STATE

S90A0226.

260 Ga. 95 (1990)

390 S.E.2d 39

MERCADO v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided April 12, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Steven Purvis, for appellant.

Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, C. A. Benjamin Woolf, for appellee.

HUNT, Justice.

Raul Mercado, was sentenced to life in prison for malice murder, arising from the death of Ismael Aguirre-Franque in Fulton County on May 27, 1988.1 His sole enumeration of error is the sufficiency of the evidence. We affirm.

The defendant had been bested in an argument with the victim two weeks earlier at La Cantina on Moreland Avenue in Atlanta. On the evening of May 26, the defendant walked into the same bar,...

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