The Georgia Supreme Court (SCOGA) has affirmed the murder conviction and life sentence give a Gainesville man in the death of his wife three years ago on their first wedding anniversary. Christopher Snow was convicted two years ago by a Hall County Superior Court jury of malice murder for the fatal stabbing of Casey Allen and was given a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Snow’s appeal argued that the trial court erred in admitting testimony under the residual hearsay exception; denying Snow’s pretrial motion for a continuance; admitting a prior felony conviction into evidence; refusing to vacate Snow’s conviction because the indictment failed to allege Allen’s killing was
unlawful; and overruling Snow’s objection to a statement made during the prosecutor’s closing argument. But the high court rejected all arguments.
The evidence presented at his trial showed that Snow stabbed Allen to death in their Gainesville apartment after, he contended, she “might have” attacked him with a knife first during an argument.
You can read the Supreme Court’s full opinion here: s26a0176.pdf