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BARNES v. STATE

S90A0579.

260 Ga. 398 (1990)

396 S.E.2d 207

BARNES v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 26, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin L. Fierman, for appellant.

Joseph H. Briley, District Attorney, James L. Cline, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, for appellee.

HUNT, Justice.

Bill Barnes was convicted by a jury of the murder of Michael Herring and sentenced to life imprisonment.1 He appeals, enumerating as error the trial court's denial of his motion for a directed verdict, the admission of his statements into evidence, and the trial court's failure to charge the jury on the state's burden of proving the corpus delicti.

The defendant, nineteen years old, and his uncle, the victim, twenty...

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