Fountain v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
(Certiorari granted by the Supreme Court.) Conviction of manslaughter; from Ben Hill superior court-judge Crum. July 9, 1918. Charlie Fountain, a White man, was indicted for the murder of Crockett Gallimore, a negro, and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. His motion for a new trial was overruled and he excepted.
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(Certiorari granted by the Supreme Court.) Conviction of manslaughter; from Ben Hill superior court-judge Crum. July 9, 1918. Charlie Fountain, a White man, was indicted for the murder of Crockett Gallimore, a negro, and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. His motion for a new trial was overruled and he excepted. Two of the grounds of the motion were that the court erred in refusing to continue the case, .and in refusing to order a-mistrial on account of a certain occurrence during the progress of the trial. As to these two grounds the trial judge says, in a qualifying note: “When this…
1Opinion of the CourtBloodworth, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts). 1. Some of the .grounds of the motion for a new trial in this case contain much unnecessary matter. The ground as to continuance covers 34 pages. In Gate City Gas-Light Co. v. Farley, 95 Ga. 796 (23 S. E. 119), it is said that “Grounds of a motion for a new trial . . . which embrace utterly superfluous and unnecessary matter, such as lengthy colloquies between counsel on opposing sides, or between counsel and the court, tedious recitals of irrelevant facts, statements taken from the stenographic notes of the trial, and other like things, to such an extent…
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