Legal Opinion
Hill v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 5, 1982No. 38423PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, Justice.
Appellant, Floyd Ernest Hill, was convicted for the malice murder of Austell police officer Greg Mullinax and for the felony murder of Darryl Toles. Appellant was sentenced to death for the murder of Mullinax and received a life sentence for the murder of Toles. He raises in his appeal thirteen enumerations of error. We affirm the conviction and the sentence of death for the murder of Mullinax but reverse the conviction for the murder of Toles.
On the evening of February 8,1981, Virginia Barber and Edward “Tweet” Saffo, who lived together in a trailer behind appellant’s…
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