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Title: Wigfall v. State
Author : Supreme Court of Georgia
Release Date : January 22, 1987
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 51 KB

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Patricia Ann Wigfall was convicted of the felony murder of her husband, Paul Wigfall, and sentenced to life in prison. 1 She appeals challenging the composition of the grand jury that indicted her in Pickens County, the introduction of a tape recording made at the scene of the killing, and the refusal of the trial court to charge on involuntary manslaughter. We affirm. On the evening of June 13, 1986, the defendant, her brother and his girl friend, while attempting to locate the defendant's husband, stopped at a hardware store where the defendant purchased a .38 calibre handgun. They later found her husband at a video store, after which the four of them returned home. The defendant's husband began watching a movie in the living room while the defendant and her brother drank in her bedroom. She handed her pocketbook with the gun in it to the girl friend and told her not to give it back to her. A little later, the defendant turned off the video recorder and dropped the tape, causing the victim to become angry. During the ensuing fight between the defendant and her husband, she recovered the gun and shot him.