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POWELL v. STATE

31273.

237 Ga. 490 (1976)

228 S.E.2d 875

POWELL v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 8, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Ray, for appellant.

Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Richard E. Hicks, Assistant District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Kirby G. Atkinson, Staff Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

HILL, Justice.

The defendant, Myrtice Powell, was convicted of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal to this court she contends in her first enumeration of error that the trial judge failed to instruct the jury, without request, that her sanity must be proven by the state beyond a reasonable doubt.

On June 22, 1974, a Saturday, at about 4:30 in the afternoon, defendant ran out of her apartment, came...

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