Davis v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder, in Marion Superior Court. Tried before Judge Iverson, March Term, 1851. On the trial of Thomas Davis, for the alleged murder of Eli Larkin, the record discloses a voluminous brief of evidence submitted. The substance of it is as follows: That on the day the homicide was committed, Davis, the prisoner, came along' a path some 40 or 50 yards from Larkin’s (the deceased) house, on his way from, a mill, with a bag on his back.
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Indictment for murder, in Marion Superior Court. Tried before Judge Iverson, March Term, 1851. On the trial of Thomas Davis, for the alleged murder of Eli Larkin, the record discloses a voluminous brief of evidence submitted. The substance of it is as follows: That on the day the homicide was committed, Davis, the prisoner, came along' a path some 40 or 50 yards from Larkin’s (the deceased) house, on his way from, a mill, with a bag on his back. Prisoner was cursing Larkin; accusing him of stealing a hog and a cow. Prisoner had a knife in his hand, which he had taken out to cut a switch,…
1Opinion of the Court
*105 By the Court.
Warner, J.
delivering the opinion.
The defendant was indicted for the murder of Eli Larkin, and on the trial, various exceptions were taken to the charge of the Court to the Jury. To the first portion of the charge, as contained in the record, to which exceptions were taken,' we find no error.
[1.] The second portion of the charge of the Court, to which error is assignedis, that the Solicitor General in his argument to the Jury, insisted that the evidence of previous good character as a peaceable man, applied only to cases where it was a question, whether the homicide had been…
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