Pritchett v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. DeKalb superior court. February term, 1898. Pritchett was tried upon a special presentment made at the February term, 1888, charging him, Lovejoy and Harrison with the murder of Hurst. See reports of the cases of Lovejoy and Harrison in 82 Ga. 87, and 83 Ga. 129. Pritchett was found guilty, with a recommendation to imprisonment for life. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he excepted.
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Indictment for murder. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. DeKalb superior court. February term, 1898. Pritchett was tried upon a special presentment made at the February term, 1888, charging him, Lovejoy and Harrison with the murder of Hurst. See reports of the cases of Lovejoy and Harrison in 82 Ga. 87, and 83 Ga. 129. Pritchett was found guilty, with a recommendation to imprisonment for life. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he excepted. The motion contains, in addition to the general grounds, the following: 1. The court erred in not instructing the jury, at rer cess and when the…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. We are aware of no law which constrains the judge who presides in a trial for murder, to instruct the jury not to discuss the case among themselves nor to allow any one else to speak to them about it. The judge may give such instruction when he thinks proper to do so, and the presumption is that he will give it whenever he deems the circumstances call for it. In this case the jury were kept together in charge of an officer from the time they were impanelled until the verdict was rendered. There is no cause for suspecting that they either discussed the case among…
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