Legal Opinion
Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 24, 1981No. 36813PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Justice.
The appellant was tried and convicted for the offenses of murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, and two counts of kidnapping with bodily injury. He was sentenced to death for armed robbery, murder and the two counts of kidnapping. He was sentenced to five years on the possession-of-firearms conviction, and he was sentenced to ten years for the aggravated assault conviction, these sentences to run consecutively. This is a companion case to High v. State, 247 Ga. 289 (1981) and Ruffin v. State, 243 Ga. 95 (252 SE2d…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Holloway v. ArkansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Godfrey v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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3Cited by42 opinions
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