Peterson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Indictment. Witness. Confessions. Opinions. Recommendation to imprisonment for life. Reasonable doubt. Before Judge Strozier. Dougherty Superior Court. June Adjourned Term, 1872. Gustavus Peterson was placed upon trial for the murder of John Sims, alleged to have been committed April 2d, 1872. The defendant _ pleaded not guilty.
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Criminal law. Indictment. Witness. Confessions. Opinions. Recommendation to imprisonment for life. Reasonable doubt. Before Judge Strozier. Dougherty Superior Court. June Adjourned Term, 1872. Gustavus Peterson was placed upon trial for the murder of John Sims, alleged to have been committed April 2d, 1872. The defendant _ pleaded not guilty. The evidence made the following case: The defendant was standing on the railroad bed when he shot John Sims; the deceased and his wife, a colored woman named Alice, were in a house; the defendant’s wife had recently given birth to a child; defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Montgomery, Judge.
1. Many English Judges have regretted the nice technical particularity required by the common law in indictments. Fortunately for the preservation of the good order and peace of this State, it has for many years only been necessary to state the crime “so plainly that the nature of the offense charged may be easily understood by the jury:” Code, 4535. The indictment charges that the prisoner “ did shoot off and discharge said pistol at, in and upon the said John Sims, (the person slain,) and upon the left side of the said John Sims did inflict one mortal wound, of the breadth…
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