Peebles v. State

Fletcher, Justice.

In separate trials, appellant James Thomas Peebles, and his nephew Richard Peebles, were convicted of the murder and kidnapping with bodily harm of Mary Myrtle Higdon Dunn. They were each given consecutive sentences of life imprisonment. Richard Peebles’ convictions and sentences were affirmed in Peebles v. State, 260 Ga. 165 (391 SE2d 639) (1990). We affirm appellant’s convictions and sentences herein.

The evidence shows that on the afternoon of December 12, 1988, the defendants picked up the victim as she was walking down a rural road near her home in Fannin County. After…