Hatcher v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Assault, with intent to murder. Tried in Dougherty Superior Court, before Judge Perkins, at June Term, 1855. A motion was made, in arrest of .judgment, upon the verdict in this case, because the names of only sixteen Jurors were written in the bill of indictment — the initials of the names of the other Jurors, only, being inserted. The motion was over-ruled, and defendant excepted.
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Assault, with intent to murder. Tried in Dougherty Superior Court, before Judge Perkins, at June Term, 1855. A motion was made, in arrest of .judgment, upon the verdict in this case, because the names of only sixteen Jurors were written in the bill of indictment — the initials of the names of the other Jurors, only, being inserted. The motion was over-ruled, and defendant excepted. Defendant’s Counsel moved for a new trial, upon the following grounds, among others: 1st. That the Court erred in ruling out the testimony of Charles W. Rawson, of the fight between the prosecutor and defendant,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
Was it error in the Court to rule out the testimony of Charles W. Rawson?
The defendant proposed to prove, by this witness, a fight between the prosecutor and himself, two years before the alleged crime was committed, the prisoner’s Counsel announcing that he expected to connect the two transactions, by repeated *463and continued threats and acts of violence, on the part of Saucer, down to the time of committing the offence charged in the indictment.
[1.] Much latitude of discretion must be allowed to the Courts, as to the mode of conducting business;…
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