White v. State

Hunstein, Justice.

Eugene A. White was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the murder and armed robbery of Marion Roberts at the Inman Park MARTA station in Atlanta. He appeals from the denial of his motion for new trial.

1. Evidence was adduced that 30 minutes after appellant and a companion unsuccessfully drew guns on a man at a nearby bakery and attempted to steal a bakery van, appellant and a companion approached Marion Roberts, who was sitting in his car in the MARTA parking lot waiting for his wife. Appellant pulled a weapon and demanded Roberts’ car; when…