Campbell v. State

Marshall, Justice.

The appellant was convicted of armed robbery and murder in the Madison Superior Court. He received a life imprisonment sentence for the armed robbery conviction and a death sentence for the murder conviction. His case is here on direct appeal and for mandatory review of the death sentence imposed.

I. Summary of the Evidence.

On December 5, 1975, Mr. C. E. Eberhart, age 74, was slain in his barbershop in Colbert, Georgia. The violent and brutal nature of the struggle which ended in his death was evidenced by "blood smeared all over the whole barbershop and everything in the…