Career
He has practiced law since the late 1940s, and is known for combining a sharp legal mind with a folksy demeanor. He has represented a wide variety of clients, from rural Southerners to international businessmen and corporations. He is reputed to have been the inspiration for the television series Matlock, which starred Andy Griffith as a Georgia attorney.
Cook was born in 1927 in Lyerly, Georgia.
He attended Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, Tennessee. He practices law in Summerville with the Cook & Connelly law firm.
Butcher was acquitted on all counts. 1988—Represented former Auburn University All-American football star Bobby Hoppe, who was charged with murder in a 1957 shooting.
Jurors deadlocked 10-2 for acquittal.
The case was never retried. Represented Wayne Williams, who appealed his 1982 conviction for the murder of two black youths in what was known as the Atlanta Child Murders. Represented Troy L. Griffith Junior., star runningback for Trion High School, Trion, Georgia.
"If you can railroad a bad man to prison, you can railroad a good manitoba".
