GRIGGS v. STATE

S92A1091.

262 Ga. 766 (1993)

425 S.E.2d 644

GRIGGS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied February 24, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Bonner, Jr., for appellant.

Charles M. Ferguson, District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Peggy R. Katz, Staff Attorney, for appellee.


HUNT, Presiding Justice.

Harold Griggs was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1954.1 He appeals, raising as error the failure of the trial court to charge on voluntary manslaughter, the exclusion by the trial court of evidence of the deceased's reputation for violence, the violation of rights secured by the Sixth and Fourteenth amendments, and the failure of the trial court...

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