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STRIPLING v. STATE

No. S90P1326.

401 S.E.2d 500 (1991)

261 Ga. 1

STRIPLING v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied March 15, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Hauptman, Atlanta, John A. Beall, IV, Jonesboro, for Stripling.

Frank C. Winn, Dist. Atty., Douglasville, Michael J. Bowers, Atty. Gen., Mary H. Hines, Staff Atty., Atlanta, for state.

Joseph L. Chambers, Sr., Pros. Attys.' Council, Smyrna, Patsy Morris, Atlanta.

Albert G. Norman, Jr., Long, Aldridge & Norman, Bruce P. Brown, Long, Aldridge & Norman, Atlanta, for Amicus appellee for State.

BELL, Justice.

This is a death penalty case. The defendant, Alphonso Stripling, was a cook trainee at a fast food restaurant in Douglasville. Very soon after the restaurant closed for the day on October 15, 1988, Stripling shot four employees of the restaurant, killing two of them. He left with the restaurant's cash receipts, stole a getaway car at gunpoint, and was arrested a short time later after a high-speed chase. In his possession at the time of his arrest were...

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