Burton v. State

Undercofler, Justice.

A. W. Burton was convicted of the murder of Lewis Pope, Jr. and upon recommendation of the jury for mercy was sentenced to life imprisonment. The evidence *394shows that about 11 p.m., Easter Sunday night, April 10, 1966, the defendant took the decedent’s estranged wife, Willie Pope, to the Peacock Club located on Auburn Avenue in the City of Atlanta. The decedent was also at the Peacock Club. Willie Pope complained that her estranged husband kept pulling at her coat and suggested to the defendant that they leave. They then left the club and were walking up the street…