COGGINS v. STATE

26403.

227 Ga. 426 (1971)

181 S.E.2d 47

COGGINS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided March 18, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. M. Landress, for appellant.

Ben F. Smith, District Attorney, George W. Darden, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Assistant Attorney General, Courtney Wilder Stanton, Mathew Robins, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee.


FELTON, Justice.

The defendant, convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, appeals from the judgment overruling his motion for a new trial on the general grounds and the special ground of the court's refusal of his request for a charge on involuntary manslaughter.

1. Regardless of whatever intention the defendant may have had prior to encountering his estranged wife, the verdict was authorized by uncontroverted evidence, including the testimony...

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