Murff v. State

Smith, Justice.

Gerald Mitchell Murff was indicted for voluntary manslaughter, tried before a Fulton County jury, convicted, and sentenced to five years imprisonment. On appeal his conviction was affirmed. Murff v. State, 165 Ga. App. 808 (302 SE2d 697) (1983). We granted certiorari and now reverse.

Murff, formerly an Atlanta policeman and GBI agent, now works for a privately owned security company. On the night of August 29,1981, Murff was employed by Church’s Fried Chicken in Atlanta to pick up cash receipts from various Church’s restaurants and deliver the money to a bank. At approximately…