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KING v. STATE

31683.

238 Ga. 240 (1977)

232 S.E.2d 236

KING v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided January 4, 1977.

Rehearing Denied January 27, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Alex Crumbley, Alan Armstrong, Rudolph Sullivan, for appellant.

E. Byron Smith, District Attorney, Kenneth R. Waldrop, Assistant District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Daryl A. Robinson, for appellee.

JORDAN, Justice.

Edward James King, also known as Pete King, was convicted of the murder of Billy Joe Jackson, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals his conviction and sentence.

The only question made is whether the trial judge erred, after charging on justifiable homicide in the language of Code Ann. § 26-902 (a) (Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1249, 1272), in charging paragraph (b) of this section. The language objected to is as follows: "A person is...

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