Foster v. State

Marshall, Chief Justice.

This is a death-penalty case. Queen Madge White, a 79-year-old widow, lived by herself in Rome, Georgia. Early in the evening of August 27, 1986, a friend took White to choir practice, and brought her home at 8:30 p.m. White talked to her sister by telephone at 9:00 p.m. and everything was normal. However, when the sister stopped by early the next morning, she discovered that White’s house had been broken into and ransacked. The sister called the police, who found White’s body lying on the floor in her bedroom covered to her chin by a blanket. Her face was coated with…