Ward v. State

Ingram, Justice.

Harold Lee Ward was convicted of the murder of Carleton Hendrix in the Superior-Court of Clarke County and sentenced to life imprisonment. Appellant contends on appeal that the evidence does not support the verdict of guilty and that the trial judge committed reversible error in his instructions to the jury. We affirm.

Appellant offered no evidence at trial. The state’s evidence showed the following: On the afternoon of June 14, 1976, appellant, his girl friend, and Hendrix began drinking at a trailer park in Athens, Georgia. The three of them later drove to a service station…