Moody v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Continuance. Indictment. Before Judge Bartlett. Greene Superior Court. March Term, 1875. Moody was placed on trial for the offense of assault with intent to murder, alleged to have been.committed upon the person of one Hark Mathews, by shooting him. When the case was called for trial, a motion was submitted by the defendant for a continuance, which was overruled. This branch of the case is fully reported in the first three head-notes.
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Criminal law. Continuance. Indictment. Before Judge Bartlett. Greene Superior Court. March Term, 1875. Moody was placed on trial for the offense of assault with intent to murder, alleged to have been.committed upon the person of one Hark Mathews, by shooting him. When the case was called for trial, a motion was submitted by the defendant for a continuance, which was overruled. This branch of the case is fully reported in the first three head-notes. The defendant pleaded not guilty. The evidence for the stale made, in brief, the following case: Mathews had been in the employment of defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Judge..The opinion of the court is given at sufficient length in the head-notes. As the conviction was eminently right and proper, the error of the judge in charging on the constitution, as indicated in the sixth head-note, had no hurtful consequence.
■We are satisfied to let the verdict stand ; and the judgment refusing a new trial is affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.
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