Griggs v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Evidence. Witness. Experts. New trial. Before Judge Pottle. Hancock Superior Court. April Term, 1877. An indictment was found against Minor Y. Griggs, W. R. Lovett and Columbus G. Barnes, charging them with the murder of Hiram F. Rozier, alleged to have been committed on February 10, 1877. Griggs was placed on trial. He pleaded not guilty.
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Criminal law. Evidence. Witness. Experts. New trial. Before Judge Pottle. Hancock Superior Court. April Term, 1877. An indictment was found against Minor Y. Griggs, W. R. Lovett and Columbus G. Barnes, charging them with the murder of Hiram F. Rozier, alleged to have been committed on February 10, 1877. Griggs was placed on trial. He pleaded not guilty. The evidence for the prosecution presented, in substance, the following case: On the night of February 10th, 1877, (Saturday) between ten and eleven o’clock, Lovett was seen closing his store, in the town of Sparta. He walked with one Stewart…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Judge.
The prisoner was convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, the evidence against him being circumstantial. His motion for a new trial was denied. No material error of law appears in the record, and the evidence was sufficient to warrant the verdict. Por the facts of the case, consult the reporter’s statement, and for the rulings of this court on the various points presented, see the head-notes hereto prefixed. The charge of the court should be read and construed as a whole. Some of its pai’ts are not faultless, but taken altogether, we think it substantially…
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