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PETERS v. STATE

No. S91A0156.

405 S.E.2d 255 (1991)

261 Ga. 373

PETERS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

June 27, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B.C. Mathis, Jr., Underwood and Mathis, Kermit S. Dorough, Jr., Beauchamp & Associates, Albany, for Peters.

Britt R. Priddy, Dist. Atty., Albany, Michael J. Bowers, Atty. Gen., Atlanta, John L. Tracy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, Paula K. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Mary Beth Westmoreland, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, for the State.

FLETCHER, Justice.

The defendant, Arthur James Peters, was convicted of the felony murder of nine-year-old Tonya Holsey while in the commission of an aggravated assault and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was also convicted of the offenses of cruelty to child, child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes, and concealing the death of another, for which he was sentenced to terms of years.1

The defendant had lived...

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