BUTTERSWORTH v. STATE

S90A1427.

260 Ga. 795 (1991)

400 S.E.2d 908

BUTTERSWORTH v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 21, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cowart & McCullough, Hugh J. McCullough, Hal T. Peel, for appellant.

Dupont K. Cheney, District Attorney, J. Stephen Archer, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Robert D. McCullers, for appellee.


HUNT, Justice.

Cass Lee Buttersworth was convicted by a jury of murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, possession of a sawed-off shotgun and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony in Tattnall County in December 1989.1 He appeals raising as error the improper admission of the corpus delicti and of sleep talk and the failure of the trial court to grant a mistrial due to improper remarks...

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