Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Nichols, Justice.
The defendant was charged with a capital felony and it was not error, as contended in the first two enumerations of error to qualify the jury as to capital punishment and to permit the State to strike for cause those jurors opposed to capital punishment even though the district attorney had stated that the State would not insist upon the death penalty.
As to the question of "insanity” and "delusional insanity” it was said in Johnson v. State, 226 Ga. 511, 515 (175 SE2d 840), quoting from Barker v. State, 188 Ga. 332, 333 (4 SE2d 31): '"The general rule is that if a man has…
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