Legal Opinion
James v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 9, 1967No. 24206PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mobley, Justice.
William Haywood James was convicted of the murder of Hulet M. Varner, Jr., with a recommendation of mercy, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The evidence for the State showed the following: On the night of September 10, 1966, a group of Negro youths were returning from a football game, and as they were coming up Boulevard, near Ponce de Leon Avenue, in the City of Atlanta, a car described as a 1969 black and white Chevrolet with a hole in the right tail light (identified as the car owned by the defendant) was driven up beside them, and a woman in the car called to them,…
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