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SIMS v. STATE

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221 Ga. 190 (1965)

144 S.E.2d 103

SIMS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided July 14, 1965.

Rehearing Denied July 26, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Moore, Jr., Wm. H. Alexander, for plaintiff in error.

Dewey Hayes, Solicitor General, Eugene Cook, Attorney General, Rubye G. Jackson, Assistant Attorney General, contra.

DUCKWORTH, Chief Justice.

Isaac Sims, Jr., a Negro, was convicted of rape by force in the Superior Court of Charlton County and was sentenced by that court to death by electrocution. (Sims' first conviction for this offense was reversed by this court in Sims v. Balkcom, 220 Ga. 7 (136 S.E.2d 766)). Sims' amended motion for new trial having been overruled...

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