Legal Opinion
Blackstock v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 5, 1998No. S98A1372PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hunstein, Justice.
Christopher Blackstock was sentenced to life imprisonment for the malice murder of Shannon Morris, ten years for armed robbery, ten years for aggravated assault, and five years for possession of a knife during the commission of the aggravated assault and murder. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.
1. Evidence adduced at trial authorized a jury to find that on the evening of November 18, 1995, Christopher Blackstock robbed and killed Shannon Morris by stabbing Morris nine times. Morris and a friend, Michael Hornsby, had joined Blackstock, Jason Dove (who was carrying a…
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