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HUTCHINS v. STATE

27397.

229 Ga. 804 (1972)

194 S.E.2d 442

HUTCHINS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided December 4, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Rogers, H. Gilman Hudnall, Jr., for appellant.

Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Joel M. Feldman, Morris H. Rosenberg, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Assistant Attorney General, Courtney Wilder Stanton, Assistant Attorney General, Thomas W. Greene, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

JORDAN, Justice.

Michael Hutchins appeals his conviction of murder and sentence to life imprisonment. The conviction is based on an incident in the vicinity of the Squire Inn Motel on Piedmont Avenue in Atlanta about 2:30 a. m. on May 6, 1971. Larry Melvin Stanford, a security guard, was shot and killed while investigating the presence of four men, including the defendant, in an automobile. The State prosecuted on the theory...

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