DALTON v. STATE

40373.

251 Ga. 641 (1983)

308 S.E.2d 835

DALTON v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided November 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Jones, for appellant.

John T. Strauss, District Attorney, John M. Ott, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Staff Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


WELTNER, Justice.

Gene Perry Dalton was convicted of the murder of Billy Ray Allen by shooting him in the head with a shotgun. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In his two enumerations of error, Dalton complains that arresting and investigating officers failed to take fingerprints from the barrel of the shotgun, and that certain photographs of the deceased and of the crime scene, admitted initially without objection, were presented to the jury by slide...

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