Patton v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Janes. Polk superior ■court. August 4, 1902. Patton was indicted for the murder of Charley Cuzzort, and was found guilty, with a recommendation of life imprisonment. He ■excepted to the refusal of a new trial. The other material facts - will appear from the opinions following.
1Opinion of the CourtLamar, J.
That a murder was committed is most certain. Every circumstance attending the dreadful affair appears with fullness, and the only question left in doubt was the one of paramount importance, — who did the killing?
1. It appeared that the main witness for. the State, together with Ms son and the son of a neighbor, went “possum hunting,” car*232rying a lantern; that their dogs had “ treed a possum; ” that they had just cut down the tree, the “ possum had been caught up, ” and at that moment two or three men appeared on an embankment or cliff some fifty or seventy-five yards aw^y, when one of them…
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