Grant v. State

Weltner, Justice.

John Thomas Grant, Jr. appeals his conviction and sentence to life imprisonment for the murder of Joseph Henry Kallas by means of a handgun. This is the companion case to Tyler v. State, 251 Ga. 381 (306 SE2d 263) (1983), wherein the circumstances of the case are fully set out.

Grant raises only one enumeration of error not addressed in Tyler. He contends that the trial court erred in allowing into evidence a color autopsy photograph of the murder victim.

This case was tried prior to our decision in Brown v. State, 250 Ga. 862 (302 SE2d 347) (1983), wherein we announced a rule…