Legal Opinion
Hicks v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 13, 1987No. 43566PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, Justice.
Appellant, Robert Karl Hicks, was convicted by a Spalding County jury of malice murder and sentenced to death. We affirm.
Facts
Early in the evening of July 13, 1985, the victim, Toni Rivers, drove to an area on Rawls Road to meet a friend with whom she planned to visit Callaway Gardens. When the friend arrived, the victim’s automobile was there, but the victim was not.
At about 8:00 p.m. that evening, a resident of Blanton Mill Road heard a loud scream from a nearby pasture area, and then a woman’s voice saying, “Don’t do that.” He saw a car parked near the end of his driveway…
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3Cited by151 opinions
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