Davis v. State

Hill, Justice.

This is a death case. Defendant Freddie Davis was convicted by jury in Meriwether County of murder and *764rape. He was sentenced to death for the murder and was given a life sentence for rape.

This case is a companion case to Spraggins v. State, 240 Ga. 759 (1978), and although the trials were separate, the state’s evidence was substantially identical as to material particulars and hence the basic facts are reported in the Spraggins opinion. Suffice it to say here that the victim’s semi-nude, mutilated body was found in her bedroom.

At this trial, defendant Davis testified that he…