Legal Opinion
Rivers v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 10, 1982No. 38736PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Presiding Justice.
Hattie Watts, her son Rickey, and her granddaughter Alicia were murdered in McDuffie County on the evening of July 4, 1981. The defendant, Hill Rivers, was arrested on July 10 and charged with three counts of murder, one count of kidnapping with bodily injury and one count of aggravated sodomy. He was tried in November of 1981, convicted on all five counts, and sentenced to death for each of the three murders. At trial, the state presented the following evidence.
Hattie Watts resided in McDuffie County, approximately two miles south of the Columbia County line, at…
2Cases cited42 opinions
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3Cited by120 opinions
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