Stubbs v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for murder; from Ben Hill superior court — Judge Gower. June 24, 1922. Application for certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court. Under an indictment charging Fred Stubbs with murder he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter.
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Indictment for murder; from Ben Hill superior court — Judge Gower. June 24, 1922. Application for certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court. Under an indictment charging Fred Stubbs with murder he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. From the evidence it appeared that shots fired from a party of former employees of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Company who were then on a strike, and were near an “ engineer’s picket-post ” at the side of the railroad, struck W. T. Reid, a locomotive engineer in the employ of the railroad company, who was riding on an engine running from…
1Opinion of the CourtBroyles, C. J.
1. It is well settled by repeated rulings of the Supreme Court and of this court that a special ground of a motion for a new trial must be complete and understandable within itself, and that it will not be considered by the reviewing court where, in order to understand it, an examination of other portions of the record is required. In the instant ease grounds 1 to 11 (inclusive) of the amendment to the motion for a new trial complain respectively of the admission of certain evidence over the objections of the defendant, and ground 14 complains of the exclusion of certain evidence upon motion…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- May v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1919
3Cited by5 opinions
- Woods v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
- Owens v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1982
- Stanley v. ChitwoodCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1952
- Ray v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1930
- Howard v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1957