Legal Opinion
Caffo v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided July 1, 1981No. 37318PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Gregory, Justice.
Michael Caffo was convicted of the murder of Leslie Bower by a Chatham County jury and sentenced to life imprisonment. The following evidence was presented at trial.
On March 25,1979 the victim, a horsetrainer, came to Savannah to visit a childhood friend, June Carpenter. The victim declined Miss Carpenter’s invitation to spend the night as she needed to be at a race track in Aiken, South Carolina, by 4:30 the following morning. The victim began her return trip to Aiken at approximately 8:00 p.m.
On March 26, 1979 police officers found the victim’s car abandoned in an area off…
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