Johnson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Indictment. Assault to murder. Poison. Before Judge Bichard H. Clark. Fulton superior court. March term, 1892.
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
The indictment was good in substance, and sufficiently full to withstand a general demurrer or to support a conviction as against a motion in arrest of judgment; but it was wanting in that degree of detail and definiteness which the accused had a right to demand before going to trial on the merits. Upon the assumption that she was guilty, it would, of course, be easy to perceive that she would know the precise manner in which she attempted by poison to take Mr. Bomare’s life; but on the assumption that she was innocent, and this the law presumes, it is equally easy to…
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