Cochran v. State

Henry Lee Cochran was convicted of the murder of his wife Essie Mae Cochran, who was found beaten and stabbed to death a day after Cochran escaped from the Mitchell County Correctional Institution. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.1 We granted Cochran’s motion for an out-of-time appeal. Cochran v. State, 253 Ga. 10 (315 SE2d 653) (1984) and address here the enumerations of error filed by recently appointed counsel, which raise issues nearly identical to those listed by Cochran in his own brief.

1. Cochran alleges that the circumstantial evidence was insufficient to identify him as the…