Everett v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Evidence. Threats. Witness. Experts. Charge of Court. New trial. Before Judge Crisp. Macon Superior Court. 'December Term, 1877. Everett was placed on trial for the murder of Antoinette Eelton, alleged to have been committed on August 25th, 1877. .He- pleaded not guilty. The evidence against him was purely circumstantial.
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Criminal law. Evidence. Threats. Witness. Experts. Charge of Court. New trial. Before Judge Crisp. Macon Superior Court. 'December Term, 1877. Everett was placed on trial for the murder of Antoinette Eelton, alleged to have been committed on August 25th, 1877. .He- pleaded not guilty. The evidence against him was purely circumstantial. The case as made was, in brief, as follows: On Saturday, August 25th, 1877, the body of deceased was found in a thick piece of woods, about fifty yards from the public road leading from Montezuma to Marshallville; there was a severe bruise on her head, and her…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Justice.
1. Tiie declarations of the prisoner, offered in his behalf as evidence, were no part of, the res gestee, either of the walk which he took on the afternoon previous to the assassination, or of the assassination itself. From the ending of the walk, the declarations were separated by the interval of a whole night and much of the following day, and from the ending of the assassination, they were separated by several hours, in locality they were separated from the scene of either event by the distance of two miles.
2. The threats proved as made by the prisoner against the life of…
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