Legal Opinion
William Alvin Smith, Cross-Appellee v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Cross-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 26, 1988No. 88-8436PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
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William Alvin Smith, a Georgia prisoner, was convicted of armed robbery and malice murder and was sentenced to death for the offense of murder. On the morning of June 8, 1981, Smith walked from his home in Lexington, Georgia to a grocery store and service station owned by Daniel Lee Turner, an 82-year-old man known to Smith as “Mr. Dan.” Only Smith now knows what happened inside the store, but it is not disputed that within a few minutes after Smith entered the store, Turner was lying unconscious in a pool of blood, having been stabbed seventeen times and beaten with…
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3Cited by10 opinions
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