Strickland v. State

Candler, Justice.

A grand jury in the Superior Court of Chatham County indicted Robert Remer Strickland, charging him with the murder of James Lawton Lewis. He was convicted of that offense, without recommendation, and in Strickland v. State, 209 Ga. 65 (70 S. E. 2d, 710), this court, by a divided bench, reversed the conviction on the ground that the charge was in specified particulars erroneous. On a second trial, he was again convicted of murder and sentenced to be electrocuted. A motion for new trial, based on the usual general grounds, was timely filed and afterwards amended by adding two…