Partridge v. State

Smith, Justice.

A DeKalb County jury found the appellant, Robert Partridge, competent to stand trial for the murder of his mother, Mrs. Rebecca Goolsby. A second DeKalb County jury found him guilty of murder but mentally ill. He raises four issues on appeal. We affirm.

Partridge built an exemplary high school record in the Chamblee area in the mid-1960s. He subsequently attended and failed out of Ohio State University. After his brush with college, he served in the infantry in Vietnam. When he returned from college and the war, his friends and family perceived that he had lost all of his…