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STEPHENS v. STATE

45573.

258 Ga. 320 (1988)

368 S.E.2d 754

STEPHENS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 14, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Calvin S. Graves, Sr., for appellant.

Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, R. Andrew Weathers, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Eddie Snelling, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

HUNT, Justice.

Following a jury trial, Anthony Leonard Stephens was found guilty but mentally ill of the murder of Joe Stewart, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.1

Stephens appeals, enumerating as error certain remarks by the trial court in its charge to the jury and the trial court's failure to charge the jury on delusional compulsion.

The defendant and the victim lived at a residential care home operated by Mildred...

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