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State v. Nelms

Supreme Court of Georgia

Dec 5, 1979

262 S.E.2d 123 (Ga. 1979)

Summary

holding that fists may be deadly weapons depending on the manner of their use where a husband asphyxiated his estranged wife

Summary of this case from People v. Ross

35472.

ARGUED NOVEMBER 14, 1979.

DECIDED DECEMBER 5, 1979.

Certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia — 150 Ga. App. 720 ( 258 S.E.2d 531) (1979).

Harry N. Gordon, District Attorney, B. Thomas Cook, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, for appellant.

Jack Affleck, for appellee.

UNDERCOFLER, Presiding Justice.

Upon further consideration of this case, we conclude the certiorari was improvidently granted.

Dismissed. Nichols, C. J., Hill, J., and Judge Charles L. Weltner, concur. Jordan, Bowles and Marshall, JJ., dissent.

UNDERCOFLER, Presiding Justice.