Legal Opinion
Willis v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 6, 1979No. 34055PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Undercofler, Presiding Justice.
Appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for killing James Edward Giddens, a police officer, on February 11, 1976. The trial began January 9, 1978, and concluded January 28, 1978.
The jury was authorized to find the following facts: Appellant and two other men, 1 committed an armed robbery of a convenience food store in Adel, Georgia; the police were informed of the robbery and a radio alert to be on the lookout for the perpetrators was broadcast; the victim, the Chief of Police of Ray City, Georgia, located fifteen miles east of Adel, stopped the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Hawes v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
- Fleming v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
- Whitlock v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1973
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Collier v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1979
- Jones v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1979
- Franklin v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1980
- Stripling v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1991
- Henry Willis, III v. Walter B. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
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