Murray v. State

Hill, Chief Justice.

Derek Theopolis Murray was convicted of murder for the stabbing death of Eugene Guinyard and received a life sentence. He appeals.

The jury was authorized to find that, after spending the evening in Jacksonville, the defendant and his girl friend returned to St. Simons Island around 1:00 a.m. on April 3, 1983, and stopped at the Club Trocadero to eat. The defendant pulled in next to the car of the victim, “Gino” Guinyard, got out of his car, beat on the victim’s car window and spoke in a derogatory manner to the victim’s female companion. The victim got out of his car and…