Legal Opinion
Stevens v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided April 9, 1980No. 35707PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Jordan, Presiding Justice.
The appellant was convicted of the murder of Roger E. Honeycutt and was sentenced to death. On direct appeal to this court, the underlying conviction for murder was affirmed; however, the death sentence was set aside due to defects in the instructions to the jury during the presentence hearing. See Stevens v. State, 242 Ga. 34 (247 SE2d 838) (1978) and its companion case Burger v. State, 242 Ga. 28 (247 SE2d 834) (1978). Following remand to the trial court, the jury again sentenced the appellant to death and he brings this appeal. A factual summary of the case is…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Hawes v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
- Jarrell v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
- Fleming v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
- Potts v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1978
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Ford v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1985
- Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1988
- Whalen v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1985
- Green v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1980
- Thomas Dean Stevens v. Walter D. Zant, Warden Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1992
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