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WOOTEN v. STATE

No. S98A1986.

510 S.E.2d 813 (1999)

270 Ga. 425

WOOTEN v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

January 11, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark William Straughan, Straughan & Straughan, McRae, for Richard Wooten.

Timothy Grady Vaughn, Dist. Atty., Russell P. Spivey, Asst. Dist. Atty., Eastman, Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., James Jayson Phillips, Asst. Atty. Gen., Paula K. Smith, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, for the State.

HINES, Justice.

Richard Wooten was found guilty of the malice murder of Marvin Peoples and the aggravated assault of Charles Rushing. Wooten fatally shot Peoples and wounded Rushing in a restaurant parking lot. Wooten contends that the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions, urging that the absence of malice authorized at most a verdict of voluntary manslaughter. Finding the evidence sufficient to support the convictions, we affirm.

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