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STRATTON v. STATE

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257 Ga. 593 (1987)

362 S.E.2d 47

STRATTON v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided November 18, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth L. Gordon, Franklin H. Thornton, for appellant.

Arthur E. Mallory III, District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, J. Michael Davis, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

MARSHALL, Chief Justice.

John E. Stratton appeals from his conviction of the malice murder of Jacqueline Denice Reed, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.1 We affirm.

Evidence was adduced to the following effect. Stratton and the victim, his common-law wife, returned to their trailer from a bar, where he had been drinking whiskey and beer. A blood-alcohol test administered two to three hours after the homicide revealed...

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