Herrington v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Hammond. Burke superior court. July 8, 1907.
1Opinion of the CourtFish, C. J.
S. B. Herrington, was tried under an indictment charging him with murder, and was found guilty of that crime. He made a motion for a new trial, which was overruled, and he excepted. He had been tried at a previous term of the court, under the same indictment, and found guilt3>- of voluntary manslaughter. Being then refused a new trial by the trial court, he brought the case to this court, where the judgment refusing a new' trial was reversed, on the ground that the judge below had erred in charging the law of voluntary manslaughter, this court being of opinion that “There was no view of the…
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