Legal Opinion
Boutwell v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided June 10, 1986No. 43350PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Gregory, Justice.
Robert Douglas Boutwell was convicted of the murder of Todd Allen Wells and sentenced to life imprisonment. At the time of the murder both men were inmates at the Jack T. Rutledge Correctional Institute in Columbus, Georgia.
The jury was authorized to find from the evidence offered at trial that the defendant, along with co-indictee Steven Terry Grover, 2 planned the victim’s murder several days before the crime as punishment for information they believed the victim had provided prison officials concerning a home-made knife in the defendant’s possession. James Daniell, another…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Escobedo v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Mathis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Waters v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1981
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Earnest v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1992
- Mize v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1998
- Robertson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1997
- Drane v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1999
- Shearer v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1989
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