Legal Opinion
Corn v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 8, 1977No. 32220PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
Charles Thomas Corn was indicted in Clayton County for armed robbery and murder occurring on August 15,1975. At a special sanity hearing a jury found him competent to stand trial, and he was convicted of both counts and sentenced to death for each offense.
The case is before this court on appeal and for mandatory review of the death penalty.
I. Summary of the Evidence
The state presented evidence from which the jury was authorized to find the following:
Two female friends of Mary Long, the victim, came by the Stop-and-Go store on Roberts Drive in Clayton County, Georgia, at about…
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