Legal Opinion
Westbrook v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 5, 1978No. 33523PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Nichols, Chief Justice.
Appellant Johnny Mack Westbrook was indicted in Jones County for two counts of murder and two counts of kidnapping with bodily injury. He was convicted on all counts and was sentenced to death for each murder and to life imprisonment for each kidnapping.
The case is before this court on appeal and for mandatory review of the death sentences.
The state presented evidence from which the jury was authorized to find the following facts:
On September 23, 1977, appellant and one Eddie William Finney went to the home of Mrs. Thelma Kalish in Macon, Georgia, to cut her lawn.…
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