Legal Opinion
Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 21, 2005No. S04A1737, S05A0110PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Thompson, Justice.
On March 20,1996, Willie and Ruby Brown died in a fire in their Appling County, Georgia home. On March 4,1997, an indictment was returned, charging appellant Littray Williams with burglary of the Brown residence on the day of the fire. At the time of the indictment, Williams was serving a two-year prison sentence for an unrelated drug conviction. While in prison on the drug conviction, he voluntarily implicated himself in the deaths of the Browns. As a result, a new indictment was returned in 1998 charging Williams with arson, malice murder (two counts), armed robbery (two…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Doggett v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Boseman v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1994
- Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2004
- Salahuddin v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2004
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3Cited by31 opinions
- State v. WhiteSupreme Court of Georgia · 2008
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- State v. GiddensCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2006
- Ditman v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2009
- Moore v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2008
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