Lynch v. State

Hawkins, Justice.

1. George Kersey, Thomas Lynch, and Atticus Brown were jointly indicted in Chatham Superior Court for the murder of Edward Crosby by shooting him with a shotgun. On his separate trial, Thomas Lynch was convicted without a recommendation of mercy, and sentenced to electrocution. His motion for a new trial, based on the usual general grounds and eight special grounds, was overruled, and to this judgment he excepts. The evidence in behalf of the State, together with the defendant’s statement, discloses; that the defendant and the other persons named in the indictment had been…