Legal Opinion
Davis v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided July 2, 1975No. 29962PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
The appellant was indicted by a Fulton County Grand Jury for the June 25, 1974 murder of Nicky Willingham, his two-year-old stepson. He was found guilty of murder in a jury trial and sentenced to life imprisonment. This appeal is filed subsequent to denial of motion for a new trial. The autopsy showed that the child whose lower back was marked with recent thermal scalds, died of drowning. The appellant contends that he was bathing the boy to clean him after he soiled his pants and that the child slipped in the tub. There was testimony by an ambulance driver and a policeman that…
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3Cited by45 opinions
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