The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously upheld the conviction of a man found guilty of killing of his family with an ax in 1985.
Michael Curry, who lived in Dalton, Ga., for 10 years before he was indicted, was convicted in 2011 for the death of his 24-year-old pregnant wife, Ann, their 4-year-old daughter, Erika, and their 20-month old son, Ryan. The incident occurred in Columbus, Ga.
For 24 years there were no arrests, but the case was reopened in 2007 and two years later Curry was arrested in Dalton. He had been working for the Dalton Public Schools since 1999 in the maintenance department.
After a jury found Curry guilty, he appealed on the grounds that his case was built on circumstantial evidence that didn’t prove his guilt, according to a state Supreme Court summary on the case.
But the justices disagreed. In today’s decision, Justice P. Harris Hines wrote that the “evidence authorized the jury to find Curry guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the crimes for which he was convicted.”