Doss v. State

Clarke, Chief Justice.

Theodis Doss stabbed and killed Robert Wallace in a tavern in Fulton County. Doss was indicted on and convicted of malice murder and felony murder.

Doss and Wallace had an argument in the tavern the night before the killing. On the night of the stabbing, the victim and Doss began fighting. Doss was hitting the victim. Wallace picked up a bar stool to fend off his assailant when Doss pulled out a knife and stabbed Wallace in the leg. Wallace, bleeding heavily, cried out that he had been cut and fell to the floor. Doss went home, washed off the knife, and never returned to…