Legal Opinion
Smith v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 6, 1976No. 30205, 30268PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Jordan, Justice.
Appellants, husband and wife, were charged in two counts with the murder of Joseph Ronald Akins and his wife Juanita Knight Akins. At separate trials both were convicted and sentenced to death on each count. With minor exceptions, the enumerated errors are common to both cases. The cases were consolidated on appeal and will be thus treated.
Joseph Ronald Akins and his wife of twenty days, Juanita Knight Akins, were killed in a secluded area of a new housing development in Bibb County, Georgia, on August 31, 1974, by shotgun blasts fired at close range.
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2Cases cited46 opinions
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- Harris v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by78 opinions
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