Court Opinion

ID: 9576534
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:25:39.478444+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:09:31.098624
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Hall, Justice,
dissenting.
I would reverse the conviction on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the evidence. The medical examiner who performed the autopsy testified that he found no external or internal injuries; that he could not say that the baby ever existed independently outside the uterus; and that he could not say that the baby suffocated as result of the burial. There is no evidence, I repeat — no evidence, that the child was slain by the mother. See White v. State, 238 Ga. 224 (232 SE2d 57) (1977); Montgomery v. State, 202 Ga. 678 (44 SE2d 242) (1947); Logue v. State, 198 Ga. 672 (32 SE2d 397) (1944).