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MASSEY v. STATE

No. S98A1221.

508 S.E.2d 149 (1998)

270 Ga. 76

MASSEY v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

October 26, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben B. Mills, Jr., Mills & Chasteen, Fitzgerald, for Roger Massey.

John Carswell Pridgen, Dist. Atty., Cordele, Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Paula K. Smith, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, for the State.

HUNSTEIN, Justice.

Roger Massey was found guilty of one count of malice murder in the shooting death of his wife, Kathy Massey.1 He was sentenced to life in prison. Because the trial court's failure to charge the jury on the law of circumstantial evidence defined in OCGA § 24-4-6 at the close of the evidence as well as its limitation of closing argument was error, we reverse.

1. Evidence adduced at trial authorized a jury...

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