Roebuck v. State

Carley, Justice.

In 1985, Charles Boyd was fatally stabbed in an altercation with three passengers in his car. Anthony Hill and Willie Terrell were convicted of murder, and the convictions and life sentences were affirmed on appeal. Terrell v. State, 258 Ga. 722 (373 SE2d 751) *201(1988). Attempts to identify the third participant in the homicide were unsuccessful until 1994, when a previously unmatched print lifted from the victim’s automobile was shown to be that of “Demetrius Jones,” an alias that the State contends was used by Appellant Gregory Roebuck. Thereafter, Hill gave a statement, in…