CANDLER, Justice.
A grand jury indicted Amos Patrick for murder. The indictment charged that he murdered Dora Mae Dupree in Clarke County, Georgia, on July 24, 1952, by cutting and stabbing her with a knife. On the trial, several eyewitnesses to the homicide testified that the accused came to a beauty shop in Athens where Dora Mae Dupree was working; that without any provocation, he cut and stabbed her some fifty-odd times with a knife, inflicting wounds from which...
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