Legal Opinion
Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 16, 1983No. 38922PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hill, Chief Justice.
Harold Glenn Williams was convicted of burglary and murder and received twenty years for the burglary and the death penalty for the murder. His trial was conducted under the Unified Appeal procedures set out at 246 Ga. A-l (1980), as amended, 248 Ga. 906 (1982).
The defendant is the grandson of Archie Lane, the 72-year-old victim in this case. The elderly victim did odd jobs to supplement his social security income. The evidence showed that, up to about nine months before the murder, the defendant and his grandfather had shared a father-son relationship and that the…
2Cases cited30 opinions
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- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1976
- Moore v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
- Hance v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1980
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3Cited by41 opinions
- Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1983
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- Walker v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1985
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