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SAMS v. STATE

45341.

258 Ga. 158 (1988)

366 S.E.2d 290

SAMS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided April 7, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mack Reynolds, for appellant.

William G. Hamrick, Jr., District Attorney, Peter J. Skandalakis, Monique F. Kirby, Assistant District Attorneys, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Lenora Grant, for appellee.

WELTNER, Justice.

William Wayne Sams was found guilty by a jury of the malice murder of Woodie Colley and was sentenced to life imprisonment.1

Late in the afternoon Sams, through his aunt, notified the sheriff's office that he had found a dead body in a public park. Members of the sheriff's department located Colley's body in the bed of his pickup truck. There was a wide, deep gash on Colley...

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