Shaw v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
,. Criminal law. Jury and jurors. Practice in superior court. Evidence. Before Judge Boynton. Butts superior court. September term, 1888. Thomas Shaw, together with O. L. Welch, Jasper Willard and Jesse Yancy, was indicted for the murder of Thomas McNair. Upon the trial of Shaw, the evidence for the State tended to show as follows: Welch, Willard and one Wilson met, on the evening before the killing, at Welch’s store.
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,. Criminal law. Jury and jurors. Practice in superior court. Evidence. Before Judge Boynton. Butts superior court. September term, 1888. Thomas Shaw, together with O. L. Welch, Jasper Willard and Jesse Yancy, was indicted for the murder of Thomas McNair. Upon the trial of Shaw, the evidence for the State tended to show as follows: Welch, Willard and one Wilson met, on the evening before the killing, at Welch’s store. Yancy was not there, and it does not appear that Shaw was. Welch said “he wanted us to go down, to Tom McNair’s.” Wilson and Willard both told him that they must go back home,…
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
Thomas Shaw was tried and convicted upon the charge of murder. He made a. motion for a new trial, upon the several grounds therein, which motion was overruled, and he excepted. The main grounds relied upon before us for the reversal of the court below in refusing a new trial, were the 6th and 7th grounds of the original motion, and the 1st ground of the amended motion, which are as follows :
“6th. Because the jury, while the case was pending, went to church at night.
“7th. Because said jury, while at church at night, heard the prosecutor in said case talk and shout; also heard…
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