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SUMPTER v. STATE

S90A1559.

260 Ga. 683 (1990)

398 S.E.2d 12

SUMPTER v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied December 19, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Tarpley, Sr., for appellant.

Robert E. Wilson, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Thomas S. Clegg, Assistant District Attorneys, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, C. A. Benjamin Woolf, for appellee.

WELTNER, Justice.

James Sumpter shot and killed his wife, Lois Sumpter, with a handgun. He was convicted by a jury of felony murder and of pointing a pistol at another, and was sentenced to life imprisonment and for a misdemeanor.1

After a history of death threats and physical and verbal abuse of his wife, Sumpter pointed a pistol at her and at a friend of her daughter; fatally shot Lois Sumpter in the back; and fired more shots...

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