Mitchell v. State

There are many points in this case, but none of them are of sufficient prominence or strength to support a reversal. Most of them will be found to be controlled directly or in principle by the act which created the criminal court of Atlanta' (Acts 1890-1, vol. 2, pp. 935 et seq.), and' the decisions in Welborne v. Donaldson, 115 Ga. 563; Gordon v. State, 102 Ga. 673; Wright v. Davis, 120 Ga. 670; Moore v. State, 124 Ga. 30. "Various criticisms have been made and questions raised in regard to the language of the act of 1891. But Mitchell, not the act of the legislature, was on trial. And…