Murray v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for fornication, from Stephens superior court— Judge Kimsey. June 7, 1907. Corrie Murray was convicted under an indictment charging her with having committed fornication with Will Price. She excepted to the, overruling of her motion for a new triál, alleging that the verdict was without evidence to support it.
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Indictment for fornication, from Stephens superior court— Judge Kimsey. June 7, 1907. Corrie Murray was convicted under an indictment charging her with having committed fornication with Will Price. She excepted to the, overruling of her motion for a new triál, alleging that the verdict was without evidence to support it. The only testimony introduced, to prove the alleged offense, was that of John Stephens, who testified as follows: “On December 26, 1906, I went to Corrie Murray’s father’s (George Murray’s) here in Toccoa, . . about sun up. No one was up. I married Cor-Tie’s sister, and went…
1Opinion of the CourtHill, C. J.
No fact or circumstance in the evidence raised a reasonable inference of guilt. The hypothesis of guilt was entirely hypothetical, and was fully overcome by positive testimony and several reasonable hypotheses of innocence. The verdict, being wholly without support of evidence, is without foundation of law, and the refusal to grant a new trial was error. Judgment reversed.
Cynthia Hanie testified, that she and her sister Corrie (the accused) slept in the same bed, in the back room of their mother’s house, in the night “about last Christmas,” when Will Price was there; that he was visiting…
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