LYONS v. STATE

No. S99A0643.

522 S.E.2d 225 (1999)

271 Ga. 639

LYONS v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied November 15, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sullivan & Kight, L. Jimmy Kight, Jr., Forsyth, for appellant.

Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, Mark S. Daniel, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


THOMPSON, Justice.

A jury found William Henry Lyons guilty of malice murder, felony murder with the underlying felony of aggravated assault, and armed robbery in the stabbing death of Cecil Henderson.1 Although the State sought the death penalty, the jury fixed the sentence at life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

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