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SIMMONS v. STATE

No. S99A1052.

522 S.E.2d 451 (1999)

271 Ga. 563

SIMMONS v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

October 18, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zell & Zell, Rodney S. Zell, Atlanta, for appellant.

J. Gray Conger, District Attorney, Margaret E. Bagley, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Jeanne K. Strickland, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

THOMPSON, Justice.

Sixteen-year-old Michael Edward Simmons was convicted by a jury of malice murder and rape in the death of his seven-year-old half-sister, Dawn Worth.1 Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

The body of Dawn Worth was found floating in a lake two-tenths of a mile from her home in the early morning hours of April 24, 1978. Her hands were bound behind her back. There...

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