Supreme Court of Georgia October 19, 1982, 38903 (Peek v. State)

Gregory, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of the murder of his sixty-five-year-old mother, Lucille Peek Bennett, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Medical testimony indicated that the victim died from a wound to the neck area inflicted by a shotgun. A ballistics expert testified that the shot which killed the victim was fired from the defendant’s 410 gauge bolt-action shotgun.