Felts v. State

Marshall, Justice.

The appellant was convicted in the Bibb Superior Court of murdering Frank Hill on a sidewalk adjacent to the "Ball of Confusion” nightclub in Macon, Georgia. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. At the time of the homicide, a girl with whom the deceased previously had lived was seeing the appellant. The deceased accosted the appellant at the scene of the shooting, brandished a pistol, hit the appellant on the shoulder with the pistol, and threatened to kill the appellant if he "messed with” the girl again. According to the testimony of witnesses, the deceased put the…