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HUGHES v. STATE

No. S98A0767.

504 S.E.2d 696 (1998)

HUGHES v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

September 21, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Hankins, III, Decatur, for Dudley Hughes, III.

John Thomas Morgan III, Dist. Atty., Robert E. Statham III, Barbara Blaine Conroy, Asst. Dist. Attys., Maria Murcier, Decatur, Hon. Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Elizabeth Lewis Jaeger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Paula K. Smith, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, for the State.

THOMPSON, Justice.

Is it necessary for a judge to find beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of a statutory aggravating circumstance when, in a death penalty case, a defendant enters a plea of guilty and is sentenced to life without parole? The answer is "yes."

Dudley Hughes murdered two people, execution-style, after breaking into their home.1 He was indicted for two counts of malice murder, six counts of felony murder, two...

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