Lee v. State

The facts disclosed by the present record are as follows : Millard Lee was tried in the superior court of Eulton county, upon an indictment charging him with the offense of murder, and was convicted. Before the time arrived for the sentence of the court to be carried into execution, an affidavit, of which the following is a copy, was presented to Judge Lumpkin of the Atlanta circuit: “Personally came before the undersigned Robert W. Westmoreland, who on oath says that he is a practicing physician in the city of Atlanta, said State and county, regularly licensed, and has been such since 1875.…