STATE v. TOWNS

S19A0557.

834 S.E.2d 839 (2019)

The STATE v. TOWNS.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: October 21, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy Grady Vaughn , District Attorney, Keely Kight Pitts , A.D.A., Oconee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, P.O. Box 1027, Eastman, Georgia 31023, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, for Appellant.

Franklin J. Hogue , James Travis Griffin , Hogue Hogue Fitzgerald & Griffin, LLP, P.O. Box 1795, Macon, Georgia 31201, Gabrielle Amber Pittman , Office of the Georgia Capital Defender, Middle Georgia Regional Office, P.O. Box 18122, Macon, Georgia 31209, Nathanial Lane Studelska , Metro Capital Defender Office, 104 Marietta St., NW, Suite 630, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Appellee.


On March 16, 2015, a Telfair County grand jury indicted Ronnie Adrian Towns, charging him with murder and armed robbery. Two years later, Towns filed a motion to dismiss the indictment, alleging that the grand jury was unlawfully constituted because some of the grand jurors were not selected randomly. Following an evidentiary...

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