Legal Opinion
Wilson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided June 10, 1980No. 35987PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hill, Justice.
This is a death case. From the presentation of the evidence the jury was authorized to find the following: The defendant, Joseph Wilson, Jr., and the victim, George A. Knox, and the victim’s girl friend, Patty Johnson, were involved one to another or all together in some sort of drug deal.
On the evening of February 23, 1979, the defendant told two witnesses that he was going to blow the victim away. At about 9:45 p.m. that night the defendant abducted the victim at gunpoint from Patty Johnson’s house in Cobb County. The victim was in the house with Ms. Johnson and two of his…
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- Hawes v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
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