Wilson v. State, S05A0571.
| Court | Supreme Court of Georgia |
| Writing for the Court | BENHAM, Justice. |
| Citation | 610 S.E.2d 66,279 Ga. 104 |
| Parties | WILSON v. The STATE. |
| Docket Number | No. S05A0571.,S05A0571. |
| Decision Date | 07 March 2005 |
610 S.E.2d 66
279 Ga. 104
v.
The STATE
No. S05A0571.
Supreme Court of Georgia.
March 7, 2005.
Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for Appellant.
Gwendolyn R. Keyes, Dist. Atty., Robert M. Coker, Asst. Dist. Atty., Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Robin J. Leigh, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Appellee.
BENHAM, Justice.
Appellant Alonzo Wilson was found guilty of the malice murder of Selina Ridley and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.1 He appeals the judgment
1. The State presented the testimony of a woman who saw a man and woman struggling near a car parked on a street in her neighborhood. The struggling woman was screaming for police assistance and saying the man was strangling her. When the witness drove closer, the man threatened to kill the witness if she did not leave. The witness returned to her home, called the police and, minutes later, took officers to the scene. She identified the man removed by police from the parked car as the man she saw struggling with the woman. One of the responding officers testified they found appellant crouched down in the passenger seat of the car, with the passenger door open. When appellant exited the vehicle, the officers noticed a woman, nude from the waist down, with her upper body on the floorboard in front of the passenger seat, her buttocks propped up by the passenger seat, her right leg extended out the open passenger door, and her left leg between the passenger and driver seats. Her face was blue and she did not have a pulse. They performed cardio-pulmonary resuscitation until emergency personnel arrived and transported her to a hospital where she died the following day. The forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy testified the victim had recently-inflicted bruises on her neck consistent with manual strangulation; petechiae, a result of manual strangulation, in the linings of her eyes and on her cheeks; and internal bleeding around the muscles and tissue near the larynx, again caused by manual strangulation. The cause of death was hypoxic encephalopathy (brain damage due to loss of blood flow) and multi-system organ failure due to manual strangulation.
Appellant testified he and the victim were in the car smoking crack cocaine he had purchased in exchange for the promise of sex [279 Ga. 105] with the victim, when she...
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