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PIERCE v. STATE

32943.

240 Ga. 385 (1977)

240 S.E.2d 844

PIERCE v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided November 28, 1977.

Rehearing Denied December 15, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Calhoun & Donaldson, John R. Calhoun, R. B. Donaldson, Jr., for appellant.

Andrew J. Ryan, III, District Attorney, Michael K. Gardner, Assistant District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, James L. Mackay, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

UNDERCOFLER, Presiding Justice.

Pierce appeals his conviction for murder and sentence to life imprisonment. He enumerates three errors. We affirm.

The facts produced at trial show the following chronological sequence of events occurring on July 30, 1973, the date upon which Osborn H. Lane, a motel night clerk in Savannah, was shot to death.

At 4 p. m., two black men, one tall and one short, entered Louis Ruhn...

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