Hosch v. State

Raymond Hosch was convicted of the malice murder of Frank Billings and sentenced to life imprisonment. The evidence showed that on the morning of November 18,1978, the victim, Frank Billings, solicited a ride from Glenwood to Winder, Georgia, with Sonny Berry and Ellis Harris in Harris’s Cadillac. En route, Billings asked for a cigarette but Berry didn’t smoke. They stopped at the Capital Homes apartment project in Winder and Berry and Harris went into Berry’s girlfriend’s apartment. Billings, who stayed in the car, asked Berry to bring him a cigarette but Berry replied that his girlfriend…