TURNER v. STATE

No. S00A1418.

541 S.E.2d 641 (2001)

273 Ga. 340

TURNER v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

January 22, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lindsay H. Bennett, Rossville, for appellant.

Herbert E. Frankin Jr., District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


BENHAM, Chief Justice.

Appellant James Steven Turner was convicted in 1998 of malice murder in connection with the January 1979 death of James Corvin.1 He appeals the judgment of conviction, and we affirm.

The victim's body was found in April 1979 in the trunk of his girlfriend's car in the parking lot of a hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The 1979 report created following the autopsy on the badly-decomposed body concluded that...

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