Lucas v. State (1916)
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Weatherby v. State (1957)
In Lucas v. State, 146 Ga. 315, 328 ( 91 S. E. 72 ), where the defendant was indicted for the murder of his wife by shooting her with a pistol, and where the evidence showed that she was killed at her home; that she had been shot with a pistol slightly above and to the rear of the left ear; that this wound — the only one on her body — produced her death; and that the defendant when arrested had a pistol on his person — this court by a five-to-one decision held: “The evidence…
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Brown v. State (1951)
Inasmuch as the law, in the absence of mitigating circumstances, declares a homicide to be felonious and done with malice, the confession by the accused that he did the act which produced the death of his wife is a confession that he killed her; and this proposition is established by the case of Webb v. State, 140 Ga. 779 ( 79 S. E. 1126 ).” Lucas v. State, 146 Ga. 315, 328 ( 91 S. E. 72 ).
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Wynn v. State (1950)
In Lucas v. State, 146 Ga. 315, 326 ( 91 S. E. 72 ), it is said: “It thus appears from the statute, and the decisions of this court applying it, that in all cases of conviction for murder, whether or not the jury would recommend a life imprisonment is within the discretion of the jury.
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Hugle v. State (1917)
See Lucas v. State, 146 Ga. 315 (7) ( 91 S. E. 72 ); Elder V.
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McLaughlin v. State (1926)
See Lucas v. State, 146 Ga. 331 (11) ( 91 S. E. 72 ), and cit.