Lawrence v. State, 32986
| Decision Date | 10 March 1978 |
| Docket Number | No. 32986,32986 |
| Parties | Monroe LAWRENCE v. The STATE. |
| Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
H. G. Bozeman, Dublin, Clayton Burke, Soperton, for appellant.
B. B. Hayes, Dist. Atty., Dublin, Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., B. Dean Grindle, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, for appellee.
Monroe Lawrence was convicted of the murder of Joe William Manning, sentenced to life imprisonment and appeals.
The evidence showed that on May 19, 1975, the appellant, his brother and father were in a bar in Soperton when the appellant became involved in an argument with the victim, who tended the bar. The Lawrences left, then appellant returned to the bar where the argument continued over whether the appellant had paid for a six pack of beer. He was then struck over the head by the victim with a pool cue stick and ordered out of the bar. The victim then began to close the bar and had just closed the blinds on the drive-in window of the bar when the bell rang at the drive-in window. While the victim was standing at the drive-in window, he was struck by a shotgun blast from outside the window, causing his death.
Witnesses who heard the shot saw appellant with a shotgun in his hand leave the area along with his father and brother as they proceeded to the father's home a block or so from the bar. A shotgun was later found under a crib at the rear residence and given to authorities by the father.
The next day the appellant made a statement in which he said,
1. The appellant contends that the trial court erred in refusing to allow him to testify at the Jackson-Denno hearing regarding the voluntariness of his statement. Pursuant to our holding in Pierce v. State, 238 Ga. 126, 129, 231 S.E.2d 744 (1977), we returned the case to the trial court for another Jackson-Denno hearing in which the appellant would be allowed to testify and for the trial judge to make a ruling after such hearing on the voluntariness issue. This has been done, a complete hearing was held at which the appellant testified,...
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