Case Name: GRANT v. THE STATE
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1983-09-08
Citations: 251 Ga. 434
Docket Number: 40066
Parties: GRANT v. THE STATE.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 251
Pages: 434–435

Head Matter:
40066.
GRANT v. THE STATE.
Decided September 8, 1983.
Richard E. Allen, for appellant.

Opinion:
Weltner, Justice.
John Thomas Grant, Jr. appeals his conviction and sentence to life imprisonment for the murder of Joseph Henry Kallas by means of a handgun. This is the companion case to Tyler v. State, 251 Ga. 381 (306 SE2d 263) (1983), wherein the circumstances of the case are fully set out.
Grant raises only one enumeration of error not addressed in Tyler. He contends that the trial court erred in allowing into evidence a color autopsy photograph of the murder victim.
This case was tried prior to our decision in Brown v. State, 250 Ga. 862 (302 SE2d 347) (1983), wherein we announced a rule relating to photographs displaying the results of autopsies.
We agree that the questioned photograph here would be inadmissible under Brown. That rule is prospective only, however, and we decline to hold its introduction to be reversible error.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.
Sam B. Sibley, Jr., District Attorney, Laurence G. Schmidt, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, for appellee.