Reynolds v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
This was an indictment for murder, in the Superior Court of the county of Stewart, tried before Judge Alexander, at April Term, 1846, and resulted in a conviction of the prisoner for voluntary manslaughter. The bill of indictment in this case contained a single count for murder, and was found at the October adjourned term of said court, in the year 1844. At the April Term thereafterwards, the prisoner was arraigned, and plead “not guilty.”
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This was an indictment for murder, in the Superior Court of the county of Stewart, tried before Judge Alexander, at April Term, 1846, and resulted in a conviction of the prisoner for voluntary manslaughter. The bill of indictment in this case contained a single count for murder, and was found at the October adjourned term of said court, in the year 1844. At the April Term thereafterwards, the prisoner was arraigned, and plead “not guilty.” The murder was alleged in the indictment to have been committed on Jefferson J. Lamar, by the prisoner, in Lumpkin, Stewart county aforesaid, by shooting.…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court
Warxer, Judge.
In this case a motion was made in arrest of judgment, and for a new trial. The counsel for the plaintiffin error moved to arrest the judgment on the following grounds : Because the indictment was for murder only, and not for manslaughter. Because the verdict contained no finding by the jury as to murder, but only as to manslaughter. Because the indictment was not found, and filed in court, within four years next after the commission of the offence charged in said bill of indictment. Because the jury found the defendant guilty of manslaughter upon a bill of indictment…
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