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MATCHETT v. STATE

45013.

257 Ga. 785 (1988)

364 S.E.2d 565

MATCHETT v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 5, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coleman, Kitchens, Wolfson & Smith, Robert D. Cullifer, for appellant.

H. Lamar Cole, District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, J. Michael Davis, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

HUNT, Justice.

Benjamin F. Matchett was convicted by a jury and received a life sentence for the murder of his son, Tony Copeland, twenty years consecutive for each of two counts of aggravated assault, and twenty years consecutive for one count of aggravated assault on a police officer.1 He argues that a new trial should have been granted because the verdict is strongly against the weight of the evidence, because the trial court allowed...

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