Mitchell v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Mathews. Bibb superior court. July 23, 1921. Dr. M. C. Mitchell, a negro practitioner of medicine, was convicted of the murder of his nephew, Henry S. Mitchell, and given a sentence of life imprisonment. The indictment charges that ' Dr. Mitchell prepared and administered and caused to be administered internally to Henry S. Mitchell arsenic or other poisons of like character, which produced death.
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Indictment for murder. Before Judge Mathews. Bibb superior court. July 23, 1921. Dr. M. C. Mitchell, a negro practitioner of medicine, was convicted of the murder of his nephew, Henry S. Mitchell, and given a sentence of life imprisonment. The indictment charges that ' Dr. Mitchell prepared and administered and caused to be administered internally to Henry S. Mitchell arsenic or other poisons of like character, which produced death. The indictment was demurred to upon the grounds, that it does not charge any offense; does not charge the time and place when the poison was alleged to have been…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, J.
1. The court did not err in overruling the demurrer to the indictment.
2. One ground of the motion for a new trial assigns error on the admission, over timely objection, of the following evidence: “ I suppose Dr. Mitchell has paid my company around $50. We declined to pay this. We paid Dr. Mitchell $500 when he lost his first wife.” This testimony was objected to by the defendant’s counsel upon the ground that the evidence in regard to insurance on his former wife, who is now dead, was not admissible and could not in any way shed any light upon this homicide. Evidence had already been admitted…
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