Goolsby v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Highsmith. Early superior court. February 23, 1918. Ulysses Goolsby, the plaintiff in error, and Mike Goolsby were jointly indicted for the offense of murder, it being alleged that they did unlawfully and with malice aforethought murder one H. J. Villipigue with a gun and a pistol.
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Indictment for murder. Before Judge Highsmith. Early superior court. February 23, 1918. Ulysses Goolsby, the plaintiff in error, and Mike Goolsby were jointly indicted for the offense of murder, it being alleged that they did unlawfully and with malice aforethought murder one H. J. Villipigue with a gun and a pistol. Upon a former trial the. defendants were convicted of murder, and the superior court having overruled their motion for a new trial, they excepted; and the judgment refusing a new trial was reversed.' Goolsby v. State, 147 Ga. 169, 259 (93 S. E. 88, 407). At a subsequent trial…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, P. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. The evidence upon the last trial as to the main features of *475the case is not materially different from what it was on the former trial. After the conclusion of the evidence and argument of counsel, upon the submission of the case to the jury the court instructed them that in so far as Mike Goolsby was concerned a verdict of not guilty should be rendered. Had the court confined his instructions upon this point to a direction of a verdict of not guilty as to Mike Goolsby, this would, of course, have furnished no ground of complaint upon the part of Ulysses…
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