Downing v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Practice in the Superior Court. Jury. ■Constitutional law. Charge, of Court. Before Judge CLARK. City Court of Atlanta. June Term, 1880. To the report contained in the decision it is only necessary to add, that the court allowed Schumann and Rauschenberg to testify, over defendant’s objection, as to testing oil bought of him, and the result.
1Opinion of the Court
Crawford, Justice.
The plaintiff in error was accused and tried in the city court of Atlanta, for selling and offering for sale, kerosene oil of a fire-test less than no degrees Fahrenheit — and also for selling and keeping for sale, and in storage, kerosene oil, without having the same inspected and approved •by an authorized inspector. He pleaded not guilty. The issue was found against him. He moved for a new trial which the court refused, and he assigns the said refusal as error.
The grounds of the-motion were in substance :
(1.) Because the court refused to allow defendant’s ■counsel to open…
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