Wright v. State

Hill, Chief Justice.

This is a death penalty case. On October 14,1983, Carolyn Richards and a number of other people were at her apartment in Atlanta. Richards sold liquor and beer at her apartment, and different people came and went. Shortly after midnight on October 15, seven people were there: Richards, Ricky Scott, Taylor Pippins and Alvin Brimidge were at the dining room table playing cards; Ruby Watts, Eugene Beasley, and the victim, Angela Spears, were on stools at. a bar. A man came to the door. Watts went to answer it but would not let him in because she did not recognize him.…