Rockmore v. State

Lumpkin, Justice.

This case was before this court at the October term, 1892 (91 Ga. 97, 16 S. E. Rep. 305), at which time the conviction of the accused for the murder of Jewett Smith was affirmed. It does not appear from the record now before us how he came to be tried again for the same offence, but we learned from the statements of counsel, made in argument, that a new trial was granted by the judge of the superior court upon a motion based on extraordinary grounds. At the second trial the accused was again convicted, and his motion for a new trial being overruled, he excepted.

If the…