Cobb v. State

Jordan, Chief Justice.

Anthony Cobb was convicted in Bibb County for the malice murder and armed robbery of Raymond Edwards, a motel clerk. Cobb committed a string of four similar armed robberies and witness elimination murders in Florida and Georgia during November and December of 1976. See, e.g., Cobb v. State, 244 Ga. 344 (260 SE2d 60) (1979). He appeals, enumerating as error the imposition for the murder of Edwards of a life sentence to run consecutively to a twenty-five year sentence for robbery previously imposed in Florida, and the imposition of a second life sentence for the armed…