Slocumb v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Murder. Before Judge Mathews. Bibb superior court. March 16, 1923. Jake Slocumb was charged with the crime of murder by shooting Harrison Goodrum with a pistol and causing his death. The jury returned a verdict finding the defendant guilty, and recomr mending him to the mercy of the court. The exception is to the judgment ^refusing the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
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Murder. Before Judge Mathews. Bibb superior court. March 16, 1923. Jake Slocumb was charged with the crime of murder by shooting Harrison Goodrum with a pistol and causing his death. The jury returned a verdict finding the defendant guilty, and recomr mending him to the mercy of the court. The exception is to the judgment ^refusing the defendant’s motion for a new trial. The evidence shows that the tragedy occurred late Sunday afternoon, in front of Cody’s Ice-Cream Parlor in the village of Tindallfield near the City of Macon, in Bibb County. The defendant fled, and after two years was…
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
1. The omission of the judge to instruct the jury as to the law of impeachment of witnesses by contradictory statements does not require the grant of a new trial, in the absence of an appropriate and timely written request for an instruction on the subject. Long v. State, 127 Ga. 350 (4) (56 S. E. 444); Lewis v. State, 125 Ga. 48 (53 S. E. 816); Stiles v. State, 154 Ga. 86 (2) (113 S. E. 208).
2. The' charge of the court applied the doctrine of reasonable fears as embodied in the Penal Code (1910), § 71, and the omission to charge the exact language of that provision of the code was not…
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