Legal Opinion
Cochran v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided June 16, 1986No. 42891Published
1Opinion of the Court
256 Ga. 113 (1986)
344 S.E.2d 402
COCHRAN
v.
THE STATE.
42891.
Supreme Court of Georgia.
Decided June 16, 1986.
Reconsideration Denied July 2, 1986.
Michael L. Bankston, for appellant.
J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, J. Michael Davis, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
2Per curiam
Henry Lee Cochran was convicted of the murder of his wife Essie Mae Cochran, who was found beaten and stabbed to death a day after Cochran escaped from the Mitchell County Correctional Institution. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.[1] We granted Cochran's motion for an out-of-time…
Also in this document: Concurrence · Smith; Concurrence · Weltner.
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- United States v. MechanikSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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