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RIVERS v. STATE

38736.

250 Ga. 303 (1982)

298 S.E.2d 1

RIVERS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided November 10, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Wheeler, Robert E. Knox, Jr., for appellant.

Kenneth E. Goolsby, District Attorney, Dennis C. Sanders, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Virginia H. Jeffries, Staff Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

MARSHALL, Presiding Justice.

Hattie Watts, her son Rickey, and her granddaughter Alicia were murdered in McDuffie County on the evening of July 4, 1981. The defendant, Hill Rivers, was arrested on July 10 and charged with three counts of murder, one count of kidnapping with bodily injury and one count of aggravated sodomy. He was tried in November of 1981, convicted on all five counts, and sentenced to death for each of the three murders. At trial, the state presented...

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