Hutchins v. State

Jordan, Justice.

Michael Hutchins appeals his conviction of murder and sentence to life imprisonment. The conviction is based on an incident in the vicinity of the Squire Inn Motel on Piedmont Avenue in Atlanta about 2:30 a.m. on May 6, 1971. Larry Melvin Stanford, a security guard, was shot and killed while investigating the presence of four men, including the defendant, in an automobile. The State prosecuted on the theory that Hutchins was directly or indirectly a party to the alleged crime, or that the alleged crime was a felony murder, the felony being a conspiracy between the defendant…