Legal Opinion
Waters v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 8, 1981No. 37629PublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Gregory, Justice.
Appellant, Eurus Kelly Waters, was indicted May 13,1980 for the murders of Anita Lynette Paseur and Kathryn Ann Culpepper. He was found guilty of both murders and sentenced to death. Waters’ defense was insanity; the evidence is undisputed that Waters killed Ms. Paseur and Ms. Culpepper.
At 4:33 p.m. on Friday, April 25, 1980, EMT’s (Emergency Medical Technicians) with the Jekyll Island Fire Department received a call reporting a shooting at a Phillips 66 station on Jekyll Island. When they arrived at the station, Kathryn Culpepper was sitting in a red AMC Gremlin automobile.…
2Cases cited54 opinions
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- Murphy v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Hawes v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
- Jarrell v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
- Gregg v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1974
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3Cited by161 opinions
- Zant v. StephensSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Eurus Kelly Waters v. Albert G. Thomas, Warden Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1995
- Pope v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1986
- Isaacs v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1989
- Castell v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1983
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