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PROVEAUX v. STATE

29331.

233 Ga. 456 (1975)

211 S.E.2d 747

PROVEAUX v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided January 8, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert G. Ingram, for appellant.

Richard E. Allen, District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, B. Dean Grindle, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

HALL, Justice.

Carl Proveaux was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of the ten-month-old son of his girl friend, and appeals arguing that the child's death was an accident.

The trial evidence showed that the child died from injuries received while in Proveaux' care. Proveaux admitted to an investigator that he had abused the child on previous occasions, but maintained to the investigator and at trial that...

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