SCOTT v. STATE

38948.

250 Ga. 195 (1982)

297 S.E.2d 18

SCOTT v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided November 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan T. Pressley, Sr., for appellant.

V. D. Stockton, District Attorney, Michael H. Crawford, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, George M. Weaver, Staff Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


GREGORY, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of the murder of his seventeen-year-old stepson and sentenced to life imprisonment. In a statement to the jury prior to the trial of the case, defense counsel stipulated that the defendant shot the victim with a.22 revolver, but maintained the evidence would show the shooting was accidental.

The undisputed evidence at trial established that on the night of the victim's death the defendant and his wife, the victim...

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