Legal Opinion
Stowe v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 10, 2000No. S00A1097PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Carley, Justice.
After being charged with several offenses, Jimmy Wayne Stowe pled guilty to violating the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. He was tried on the remaining charges, and a jury found him guilty of both felony and malice murder in connection with the homicide of his wife, and of possessing a firearm during the commission of that crime. The trial court properly entered judgments of conviction only on the malice murder and firearm possession verdicts, since the felony murder verdict was vacated by operation of OCGA § 16-1-7. Goforth v. State, 271 Ga. 700 (523 SE2d 868) (1999);…
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