Supreme Court of Georgia, (May 12, 1970)
Docket number: 25811
ARGUED
MOBLEY, Presiding justice. - ARGUED
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Supreme Court of Georgia - JACKSON v. THE STATE., 225 Ga. 790, 171 S.E.2.d 501 (1969)
Supreme Court of Georgia - MILLER v. THE STATE., 224 Ga. 627, 163 S.E.2.d 730
Supreme Court of Georgia - WHISMAN v. THE STATE., 224 Ga. 793, 164 S.E.2.d 719 (1968)
Supreme Court of Georgia - MANOR v. THE STATE., 223 Ga. 594, 157 S.E.2.d 431 (1967)
Supreme Court of Georgia - MOORE v. THE STATE., 222 Ga. 748, 152 S.E.2.d 570 (1966)
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Culpepper v. The State., 132 Ga. App. 733, 209 S.E.2d 18 (1974)
Supreme Court of Georgia - SIRMANS v. THE STATE., 229 Ga. 743, 194 S.E.2.d 476 (1972)
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Mobley v. The State., 218 Ga. App. 739, 463 S.E.2d 166 (1995)
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Teal v. The State., 122 Ga. App. 532, 177 S.E.2d 840 (1970)
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Moore v. The State., 153 Ga. App. 511, 265 S.E.2d 821 (1980)
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Chastain Et Al. v. The State., 158 Ga. App. 654, 281 S.E.2d 627 (1981)
Supreme Court of Georgia - ANDERSON v. THE STATE., 233 Ga. 433, 211 S.E.2.d 728
Supreme Court of Georgia - HUDSON v. THE STATE., 229 Ga. 565, 193 S.E.2.d 7 (1972)
Georgia Court Of Appeals - Brand v. The State (Two Cases)., 123 Ga. App. 273, 180 S.E.2d 579 (1971)
Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Carter Goode, J. Melvin England, Tony H. Hight, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Assistant Attorney General, Marion O. Gordon, William R. Childers, Jr., Assistant Attorney, General, for appellee.Glenn Zell, for appellant.
1. The court improperly excused jurors who stated on voir dire that they would not inflict the death penalty without regard to any evidence that might he developed in the case.2. It was not error to admit in evidence photographs of the naked body of the deceased, although the defendant had stipulated everything the photographs would show.3. It was not improper for the trial court, on the motion of the district attorney, to reopen the case and allow the introduction of evidence of the confession of the defendant, after both sides had closed, where the witness for the defendant had testified as to statements made to him by the defendant, which were contradiction of statements made by the defendant in his confession.4. There was no evidence that the confession of the defendant was not voluntary; thus it was properly admitted in evidence.5. In the absence of any objection to argument of the district attorney, the trial court did not err in not reprimanding him, or in failing to declare a mistrial.6. It was not error for the trial court to fail to charge on delusional insanity, where there was no evidence that the defendant was suffering from delusional insanity at the time of the commission of the crime.7. It was not error for the court to submit to the jury the issues of guilt or innocence and punishment.8. The general grounds and several special grounds of the motion for new trial were not argued and are considered abandoned. The defendant (appellant here) was indicted for murder, was tried and convicted without reccomendation, and sentenced to death. The appeal is from the denial of his motion for new trial, as amended, which is enumerated as error. Nine other assignments of error are made.1. The trial court excused 16 jurors for cause on the ground that they would not inflict the death penalty regardless of the evidence. The defendant contends that the answers of five of them on voir dire did not justify their being excused.Their answers make it unmistakably clear that they would automatically vote against the imposition of capital punishment without regard to any evidence that might be developed in the case. Under Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U. S. 510 (88 SC 1770, 20 LE2d 776); and Whisman v. State,Try vLex for FREE for 3 days
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