Booker v. State

Jenkins, Justice.

Tom Booker was convicted at the August term, 1936, of the superior court of Wilkes County, of the offense of murder, with a recommendation of mercy. The evidence shows that the deceased, H. A. Sturdivant, chief of police of the City of Washington, Georgia, and S. C. Hopkins, the night police chief of that city, in response to a telephone call from Augusta, Georgia, late in the afternoon of the 4th of July, were on the lookout for a four-door Plymouth sedan, stolen on the 3d of July in Augusta from Marietta Jones. Later in the afternoon of the 4th of July, a car was seen by…