Cook v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for high misdemeanor, found and tried befpre Judge Thomas, in Taliaferro Superior Court at August Term, 1858. The indictment in this case charged Richard L. Cookwith “concealing, harboring, hiding and employing in his own, service” the slave of another, to the injury of the owner. Upon this indictment he was arraigned and plead “not guilty.”
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Indictment for high misdemeanor, found and tried befpre Judge Thomas, in Taliaferro Superior Court at August Term, 1858. The indictment in this case charged Richard L. Cookwith “concealing, harboring, hiding and employing in his own, service” the slave of another, to the injury of the owner. Upon this indictment he was arraigned and plead “not guilty.” The counsel for Cook then moved to continue on account of the absence of Mary Cook, by whom he expected to prove that she had been living at the house of Cook for from some time before, until some time after the alleged harboring, and that the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Benning J.
delivering the opinon.
All the questions in the case, are contained in the motion for a new trial, and, in the motion in arrest of judgment. I shall confine myself, therefore, to those two motions.
I proceed first to the motion for a new trial.
The first three grounds of that motion, raise this question — did the Court below err, in refusing the motion for a continuance ?
The grounds of the motion for a continuance, were three; 1st. The'absence of the witness, Mary Cook; 2d. The absence of the witness, Wm. Lewis; 3d. excitement in the public mind, against the accused.
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