Douthit v. State

Hill, Justice.

This is a death case. Following trial by jury in Cobb County, Ronald Douthit was found guilty of the offense of murder. The case is before this court on appeal and for review of the death sentence. The jury had before it the evidence which follows.

While walking along Log Cabin Drive in Smyrna, Georgia, at approximately 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, December 17, 1975, Silas Stephens noticed the feet of a body protruding from a ditch. The body was clothed except that the victim’s shoes were missing. The police were summoned and the body of Leonard Karl Frazier was identified. During…