Legal Opinion

Murff v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided February 17, 1983No. 65417PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Quillian, Presiding Judge.

The defendant, Gerald Murff, appeals his conviction of voluntary manslaughter. The witnesses to this encounter are not in agreement as to all of the facts, but in essence, Dessa Brown testified that she and her brother, Hiram Walker, went to the Church’s Fried Chicken restaurant on Martin Luther King Avenue across the street from the MARTA Hightower station. Walker was going to return to his home in Alabama when they left the restaurant, so they went in separate cars. Walker arrived two or three minutes after she did. She saw her brother attempt to enter the parking…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Abney v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  3. United States v. JornSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  4. United States v. PerezSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
  5. Wade v. HunterSupreme Court of the United States · 1949

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Murff v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1983
  2. Herndon v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1988
  3. Williams v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1984
  4. Lassiter v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1985
  5. Ramirez v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1995

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