Legal Opinion
John Eldon Smith v. Ralph M. Kemp, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 28, 1983No. 83-8611PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RONEY and JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judges:
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. Petitioner, John Eldon Smith, also known as Tony Machetti, charged with firing the shotgun, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death.
Briefly, the evidence was that petitioner and his wife, Rebecca Akins Smith Machetti, together with John Maree, plotted to kill Akins, a former husband of Rebecca’s and the father of her three children,…
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