Green v. State

Marshall, Presiding Justice.

Earl Green appeals from his conviction of malice murder, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. (For the opinions in his co-defendants’ appeals, see Mulkey v. State, 250 Ga. 444 (298 SE2d 487) (1983); Salmon v. State, 249 Ga. 785 (294 SE2d 500) (1982)). Briefly, although the sufficiency of the evidence to authorize the conviction is not argued, there was evidence that Green had formed a conspiracy — with co-defendants Harold Mulkey and Robert Lee “Bo” Salmon — to have Green’s stepson, James Henry Ridley, Jr. (the victim), Green’s wife, and the victim’s…