Bolton v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for assault with intent to murder; from Gwinnett superior court — Judge Cobb. June 4, 1917. The indictment charges that the defendant “did commit the offense of assault with intent to murder in the second degree, by then and there being present, aiding and abetting the act to be done, and did then and there procure and direct and tell Jeff Staples to shoot Allen Sudderth, and that the said Jeff Staples then and there, with force and arms and a certain pistol,…
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Indictment for assault with intent to murder; from Gwinnett superior court — Judge Cobb. June 4, 1917. The indictment charges that the defendant “did commit the offense of assault with intent to murder in the second degree, by then and there being present, aiding and abetting the act to be done, and did then and there procure and direct and tell Jeff Staples to shoot Allen Sudderth, and that the said Jeff Staples then and there, with force and arms and a certain pistol, being a weapon likely to produce death, did unlawfully and with malice aforethought shoot and wound one Allen Sudderth with…
1Opinion of the CourtBloodworth, J.
■ 1. The special grounds of the motion fór a new trial are all based upon alleged errors of the court in charging in reference to “conspiracy.” The plaintiff in error insists that ■the facts do not authorize a charge on conspiracy, and that the portion of the charge in reference thereto was argumentative; that the judge expressed an opinion on the facts, and that the charge “authorized the jury to find movant guilty without movant having participated in the act of assault made by Staples upon Sudderth.” The charge is not argumentative. Nowhere in it do we find that the judge expressed or…
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