Legal Opinion
Downs v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 16, 1952No. 17666PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Almand, Justice.
Lanier Downs and Carl Moore were jointly indicted for murder, it being charged that they did on November 26, 1950, kill and murder one Harvel H. Moye by shooting him with a certain shotgun, “which the said Lanier Downs and Carl Moore then and there held, giving to the said Harvel H. Moye then and there a mortal wound” from which said Moye died. The defendants were separately tried. Lanier Downs was found guilty by the jury with a recommendation to mercy, and was sentenced by the court to life imprisonment. He filed a motion for a new trial on the general grounds and four…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Strickland v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1928
- Jester v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1941
- Bradberry v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1930
- Edmonds v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1946
- Perry v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Sims v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Ramsey v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1956
- Hilliard v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1973
- Ferguson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1959
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