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PERKINS v. STATE

No. S98P0624.

505 S.E.2d 16 (1998)

269 Ga. 791

PERKINS v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

September 21, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Michael Martin, Jonesboro, for David Aaron Perkins.

Robert E. Keller, Dist. Atty., Clifford A. Sticher, Erman J. Tanjuatco, David Brandon Hornsby, Asst. Dist. Attys., Jonesboro, Hon. Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Christopher L. Phillips, Asst. Atty. Gen., Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, for the State

Stephen Christopher Bayliss, Michael Mears, MultiCounty Public Defender, Atlanta, Joseph L. Chambers, Sr., Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Georgia, Smyrna, for other interested parties.

FLETCHER, Presiding Justice.

A jury convicted David Perkins of the murder of Herbert D. Ryals, III, and he was sentenced to death.1 The jury found as aggravating circumstances that the murder was committed while the defendant was engaged in the commission of an aggravated battery and was outrageously and wantonly vile, horrible, and inhuman in that it involved depravity of mind and an aggravated battery to the victim.

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