Jefferson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Practice in superior court. Witness. Before Judge Bower. Dougherty Superior Court. April term, 1887. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
The defendant was indicted for rape, and was convicted. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he excepted. The grounds of the motion are, in substance, as follows:
The 1st and 2d grounds are that the verdict is contrary to law and to the evidence. ' The 3d ground complains that the court overruled the objection of defendant’s counsel to the competency of Eliza Green, the person alleged to have been raped, to testify as a witness for the State; and also that the court restricted the cross-examination of this witness on the subject of her competency; the testimony of the…
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