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STEMBRIDGE v. GEORGIA

No. 474.

343 U.S. 541 (1952)

72 S.Ct. 834

96 L.Ed. 1130

STEMBRIDGE v. GEORGIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. H. Blackshear, Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General of Georgia, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Eugene Cook, Attorney General, Lamar W. Sizemore, Assistant Attorney General, and C. S. Baldwin, Jr. for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE MINTON delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of an eighteen-year-old woman in an altercation growing out of a business transaction. A second woman was wounded in the affray. At his trial, petitioner claimed that he killed the deceased in self-defense. The jury obviously did not believe him or it would not have found him guilty of voluntary man-slaughter. He appealed to the Court of...

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