GORMAN v. STATE

S90A0580.

260 Ga. 474 (1990)

396 S.E.2d 491

GORMAN v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied October 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alden W. Snead, for appellant.

Frank C. Winn, District Attorney, J. David McDade, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Leonora Grant, for appellee.


SMITH, Presiding Justice.

The appellant, Phillip Gorman, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the malice murder of his wife, Marie Gorman. We affirm.1

The Gormans had separated, and Mrs. Gorman told her husband that she wanted a divorce. The appellant was despondent and angry about the separation and the possible divorce; he made threats concerning his wife to various friends including saying: "[I]f she did divorce me . . . Before...

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