Dennard v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for assault with intent to murder; from, Terrell superior court — Judge Worrill. February 7, 1914. W. H. Morgan testified, that he was walking in the daytime alon<* the left side of a public road 30 or 40 feet wide, when' he heard an automobile cross a bridge behind him, and he looked back and saw it at a distance of 300 or 400 yards, approaching at the rate of about 30 or 40 miles an hour, and Johnnie Dennard, the defendant, driving it.
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Indictment for assault with intent to murder; from, Terrell superior court — Judge Worrill. February 7, 1914. W. H. Morgan testified, that he was walking in the daytime alon<* the left side of a public road 30 or 40 feet wide, when' he heard an automobile cross a bridge behind him, and he looked back and saw it at a distance of 300 or 400 yards, approaching at the rate of about 30 or 40 miles an hour, and Johnnie Dennard, the defendant, driving it. The witness stepped to the right of the road, to get down in a ditch, and was “about 12 feet in the right-hand ditch from the left-hand side where…
1Opinion of the CourtRoan, J.
This defendant was convicted under an indictment charging him with assault with intent to murder, in that he ran an automobile against and over one W. H. Morgan on a public road, with intent to kill him. The motion for a new trial was based solely upon the statutory grounds, that, the verdict was contrary to law, and to the evidence, etc.
This is a very peculiar case. It is not shown that the defendant had any ill feeling for the man alleged to have been assaulted; no reason appears why he should have wished to run the man down on a public highway; there is no• evidence that the machine became…
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