Godfrey v. Georgia, No. 78-6899 (U.S. Supreme Court) (446 U.S. 420; 100 S.Ct. 1759) (May 19, 1980) (Justice Stewart)
In this case, the Supreme Court addressed the constitutionality of a mental depravity instruction given to a jury in a capital murder case. The petitioner, Robert Franklin Godfrey, was sentenced to death by a jury based on a verdict finding that the offense of murder was "outrageously or wantonly vile, ...
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