Pittman v. State

Clarke, Justice.

The appellant was convicted in Bulloch Superior Court for the murder and armed robbery of Paul Hendrix. He received a sentence of life imprisonment for the murder and fifteen years to run concurrently for the armed robbery. A co-defendant, Jimmy Dees, had entered a plea of guilty to the crimes and testified for the state.

Dees testified that he and the appellant had spent the day of the incident together in and around Claxton, Georgia. Dees’ family lived in Claxton at the Todd Apartments. They had been drinking all day and decided to go rabbit hunting around six in the evening.…