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BLANCHARD v. STATE

37187.

247 Ga. 415 (1981)

276 S.E.2d 593

BLANCHARD v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided April 8, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean B. Donehoo, Robert B. Adams, Rickie L. Brown, for appellant.

Stephen A. Williams, District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Charles E. Brown, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

UNDERCOFLER, Justice.

Hoyt Douglas Blanchard, Jr., was convicted in Whitfield County for the murder of Monroe Bishop, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals. We affirm.

Blanchard formerly was married to Bishop's daughter. On the day of his release from the mental ward of the local hospital, Blanchard went to Bishop's Fruit Stand, where Bishop and his son, Kenneth, were working on a tire while they were engaged in a conversation with Sherman Fowler...

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