Legal Opinion
Wellons v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 20, 1995No. S95P0680PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Thompson, Justice.
Marcus A. Wellons was convicted of the malice murder and rape of 15-year-old India Roberts. The jury found as statutory aggravating circumstances that the murder was committed in the course of two other capital felonies, rape and kidnapping with bodily injury, and that the murder was wantonly vile and horrible in that it involved torture to the victim before death and depravity of mind. The jury sentenced Wellons to death for the murder. He received a life sentence for the rape. Wellons appeals from the judgments entered by the trial court. Wellons contends among his 35…
2Cases cited51 opinions
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- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Manson v. BrathwaiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Felker v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1984
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3Cited by104 opinions
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