Null v. State

Hunt, Justice.

Billy Joe Null was tried and convicted in Gwinnett County for the murder, armed robbery, and kidnapping with bodily injury of Thomas Patrick Gale. He was given three life sentences, two consecutive and one concurrent to the second life sentence.

Evidence was introduced at the defendant’s trial tending to show that the defendant and his co-defendant, Billy Adams, schemed to rob the victim, allegedly a dealer in cocaine, of jewelry, drugs and money. The defendants brought the victim to Adams’ apartment on the pretense of selling him jewelry, where they confronted him with a machine…