John v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Murder1, in Baldwin Superior Court. Tried before Judge Harris, at February Term, 1862. At February Term, 1862, of Baldwin Superior Court, John, a slave, the property of L. D. Buckner, was put upon his trial on an indictment, found at the same term, charging him with the murder of a slave, Jackson, the property of Miss Maria MacDonald.
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Murder1, in Baldwin Superior Court. Tried before Judge Harris, at February Term, 1862. At February Term, 1862, of Baldwin Superior Court, John, a slave, the property of L. D. Buckner, was put upon his trial on an indictment, found at the same term, charging him with the murder of a slave, Jackson, the property of Miss Maria MacDonald. The State introduced the following testimony : William M. Stephens testifies: I know prisoner; saw him on the evening of the 8th September, fifteen minutes after sunset, or later; saw both prisoner and deceased at Finnegan’s branch, about two and half miles from…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court —
Lumpkin, J., delivering the opinion.
In this case, the fact that the deceased came to his death by violence inflicted by a third person, and that the homicide was malicious, is not disputed. And the only question is, who committed the crime ? And the answer to this question depends upon circumstantial evidence, there being no direct proof of the guilt of the prisoner. This embraces a wide range of enquiry.
It has been well remarked, that very few crimes of great enormity, and involving a resort to violence in their perpetration, can be committed without leaving such traces in the…
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