Legal Opinion
Higgs v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 15, 1987No. 43619PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Weltner, Justice.
The evidence in this case indicates that on June 29, 1984, shortly after midnight, Rollison Higgs shot and killed John Scroble with a handgun. The shooting took place in a parking area adjacent to a restaurant. Just prior to the shooting, the victim Scroble and Frankie Higgs, the former wife of the defendant, were seated in the front seat of an automobile that Frankie Higgs had driven to the parking area. Faye Clark, who testified that she had known the defendant and his former wife “all my life,” was close to the automobile. She related that as she started to walk toward the…
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