GREEN v. STATE

No. S96A0599.

470 S.E.2d 884 (1996)

266 Ga. 758

GREEN v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

June 3, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark J. Nathan, Savannah, for Green.

Spencer Lawton, Jr., Dist. Atty., Savannah, Michael J. Bowers, Atty. Gen., Dept. of Law, Atlanta, David Langford, Asst. Dist. Atty., Savannah, Beth Attaway, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Law, Atlanta, for State.


FLETCHER, Presiding Justice.

Bernard William Green was convicted of felony murder in the death of his wife Cynthia Grant, who died of a stress ulcer in the hospital a week after Green stabbed her. There was conflicting expert testimony at trial concerning whether the stab wound or the drug Toradol caused the stress ulcer. Green alleges that his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to request the proper charge on secondary causation of death and to object to improper...

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