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CHASTAIN v. STATE

S90A1190.

260 Ga. 789 (1991)

400 S.E.2d 329

CHASTAIN v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 14, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. B. Edwards III, for appellant.

H. Lamar Cole, District Attorney, Charles M. Stines, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, C. A. Benjamin Woolf, for appellee.

FLETCHER, Justice.

James Pierre Chastain was convicted of one count of malice murder and one count of arson in the first degree in connection with the death of his first wife, Teresa Gail Chastain.1 He was sentenced to life imprisonment on the murder count and to 20 years, to be served consecutively, on the arson count. Chastain appeals and we affirm.

Chastain and the victim lived in a trailer located on a lot adjacent to the dairy...

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