NICHOLS v. STATE

No. S09A1181.

683 S.E.2d 610 (2009)

NICHOLS v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

September 28, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl P. Greenberg, for appellant.

Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming, Dist. Atty., Leonora Grant, Asst. Dist. Atty., Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Jason C. Fisher, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


CARLEY, Presiding Justice.

On June 6, 2005, James Lynn Nichols, who was a truck driver, shot Rodwell Jones, Jr., several times following an altercation between the two men at a gas station. The victim died from the gunshot wounds he sustained. After a jury trial in March 2006, at which Nichols claimed that he acted in self-defense, he was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. This Court reversed...

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