Bouttry v. State

Bowles, Justice.

Appellant was tried and convicted by a jury in McDuffie Superior Court for the murder of his wife, Eula Pearl Bouttry, and received a sentence of life imprisonment. His motion for new trial was overruled by the trial court and he now appeals to this court for a reversal of his conviction.

At trial the state presented evidence from which the jury was authorized to find the following: On August 26, 1977, the appellant went to a bar in Thomson, Georgia, known as T. S. Cody’s Place. While outside the premises, a woman approached the appellant and told him, "I got something to tell…