Rickerson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
New Trial. Practice in Superior Court. Criminal Law. Charge of Court. Evidence. Before Judge Simmons. Bibb Superior Court. October Term, 1885. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
The plaintiff in error was indicted, tried and convicted, by the superior court of Bibb county, of the offence oi murder, in that, it was alleged, he had killed and murdered Harrison Brown.
*162. In all cases of violations of the criminal laws, there are two things necessary for the State to prove : first, that there has been a crime committed — that is called the corpus delicti; and next, that the accused committed the crime. The evidence in this case showed that, near the track of the Central Railroad there was found a small place in the sand, a few inches in diameter, which…
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