Green v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Eve. Tift superior court. January 17, 1922. J. M. S. Green was indicted for the murder of Daniel Sutton. The evidence for the State was as follows: Tom Barfield testified as follows: T am a son-in-law of Daniel Sutton. Was with him on Sunday, July 3, 1921. Went with the deceased late in the morning of that day to J. J. Cravey’s home.
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Indictment for murder. Before Judge Eve. Tift superior court. January 17, 1922. J. M. S. Green was indicted for the murder of Daniel Sutton. The evidence for the State was as follows: Tom Barfield testified as follows: T am a son-in-law of Daniel Sutton. Was with him on Sunday, July 3, 1921. Went with the deceased late in the morning of that day to J. J. Cravey’s home. Can not say how long the deceased and I had been at Mr. Cravey’s before Green came, but had been there an hour. Green came to Cravey’s in a buggy, driving a mule. Sutton and I remained at Cravey’s, after Green came, some thirty…
1Opinion of the CourtHines, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. The defendant moved for a continuance or postponement of his case, on the ground of the absence of Dr. J. M. Bellflower, a practicing physician, who had been subpoenaed as a witness in his behalf, and by whom he expected to prove that his wife frequently had trouble at her menstrual period, that Dr. Bell-*133flower had attended her and prescribed for her on these occasions whisky as beneficial to her when she had such trouble, and had advised that whisky be kept on hand for her. The showing for a continuance complied with all the requirements of the law on…
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