Opinion

House v. State

  • 232 Ga. 140
  • 205 S.E.2d 217
  • 1974 Ga. LEXIS 887
Court
Supreme Court of Georgia
Filed
Apr 4, 1974
Status
Published
Author
Gunter
On the bench
Undercofler, Gunter, Hall
Cited by
94 cases
Authority
More cited than 6.7%

The opinion

Gunter, Justice,

dissenting.

I dissent from the judgment of the court on the ground that the present Georgia statutes authorizing the imposition of the death penalty establish a "discretionary system” as opposed to a "mandatory system” for imposing the death penalty, and such statutes are, in my judgment, unconstitutional pursuant to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Furman v. Georgia, 408 U. S. 238 (92 SC 2726, 33 LE2d 346). My views in this regard are set forth in the concurring part of my concurring and dissenting opinion in Coley v. State, *149 231 Ga. 829 .

I respectfully dissent.

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