Legal Opinion
Hodges v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 30, 1995No. S95A1079PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Thompson, Justice.
Leonard C. Hodges was convicted of the malice murder of Kenneth Lee Mayes and sentenced to life in prison. 1 He enumerates four evidentiary errors on appeal. We find no harmful error and affirm.
An anonymous telephone caller informed the police that he was driving through the Stephen Heard Cemetery in Elbert County and saw what he thought was a body. The caller sounded scared and refused to give his name. Upon investigating the call, the police discovered the dead body of Kenneth Lee Mayes in the cemetery. Mayes’ hands were bound behind his back with electrical tape and he…
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