STEWART v. STATE

No. S95A1005.

463 S.E.2d 493 (1995)

266 Ga. 1

STEWART v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied December 4, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert J. Murrah, Bainbridge, Ronnie Joe Lane, Donalsonville, for Willie James Stewart.

J. Brown Moseley, Dist. Atty., Bainbridge, Michael J. Bowers, Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, for the State.

Rachelle L. Strausner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta.


HINES, Justice.

Willie James Stewart was convicted of the malice murder of his girlfriend, Matrice Clayton, and sentenced to life imprisonment. At trial, the court permitted the State to present evidence that Stewart threatened to kill the victim four days prior to her death. It did so in the face of Stewart's objection that Uniform Superior Court Rule 31.3(B) required that a pre-trial hearing be held. On the appeal of...

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