Legal Opinion
Mooney v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 15, 1979No. 34225PublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
Appellant John Henry Mooney was indicted with Elmo Florence for the murder of T. K. Harty. He was tried separately, and was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life imprisonment on May 2,1978. He brings this appeal.
The trial evidence showed that on August 30, 1977, the body of Harty, the owner of a saloon in Athens, Georgia, was discovered slumped over a desk in his home. He had been shot once in the back of the head, apparently during the preceding evening. Shortly thereafter, one Reinhold, a restaurant-bar owner in Athens, informed police that one Elmo Florence had admitted…
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