Paul v. State

Benham, Justice.

Appellant Demetrius Paul appeals the judgment of conviction entered against him for the malice murder of Jamario Marshall, the ten-year-old son of Paul’s girlfriend.

1. When the young victim arrived at a Clarke County hospital on February 12, 1998, he was in cardiac arrest and efforts to revive him proved unsuccessful. In an effort to determine what had caused the child’s death, hospital personnel undressed him and found a massive area of hematoma and bleeding that extended from the child’s lower back to the backs of his knees. The deputy chief medical examiner for the Georgia…