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CHILDRESS v. STATE

No. S95P1940.

467 S.E.2d 865 (1996)

266 Ga. 425

CHILDRESS v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

March 15, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Crowe, Lane & Crowe, Brunswick, M. Seth Rosenthal, Atlanta, for Childress.

Glenn Thomas, Jr., District Atty., John B. Johnson, III, Asst. District Atty., Jesup, Michael J. Bowers, Atty. Gen., Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Wesley S. Horney, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, for State.

FLETCHER, Presiding Justice.

Roddy Elroy Childress was convicted of two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of his niece, Emma Kappus, and her father, Patrick Kappus. The jury found as a statutory aggravating circumstance that the murder of Emma Kappus was committed while Childress was engaged in the murder of Patrick Kappus.1 The jury sentenced Childress to death for the murder of Emma. He received a consecutive life sentence for...

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