Watson v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Conviction of manslaughter; from Barrow superior court— Judge Cobb. May 15, 1917. John Watson was indicted for murder and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The indictment alleged that the murder was committed “by hitting and striking said Jim Mahaffey with a certain soda-water bottle on the head.”
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Conviction of manslaughter; from Barrow superior court— Judge Cobb. May 15, 1917. John Watson was indicted for murder and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The indictment alleged that the murder was committed “by hitting and striking said Jim Mahaffey with a certain soda-water bottle on the head.” In the defendant’s motion for a new trial it was alleged (in addition to the general grounds) that the court erred in charging the jury as follows: “It is incumbent upon the State in the trial of a criminal case to prove to the satisfaction of the jury, beyond a reasonable doubt, all of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHarwell, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The evidence for the State disclosed that the homicide' was committed with á soda-water bottle, and the evidence for the accused tended to the theory that there was a second altercation, and that the fatal blow was made with a brick. The special ground of the motion for a new trial, which complains of certain excerpts from the court’s charge and of the Tefusal to charge as requested, make practically one question, and that is, did the learned trial judge err in charging that “if it should appear that the killing was done, not with a soda-water bottle, but…
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