Commissioners of Floyd County v. Black

Hawkins, Justice.

On the third day of December, 1878, J, R. Towers, justice of the peace, issued a subpcena, as follows:

“ Georgia-—Floyd county:

“To James Blount, of said county, greeting: You are hereby commanded that, laying all other business aside, you be and appear at the justice court of the 919th district, to be held in and for said county, on the fifth day of December instant, by 10 o’clock A. M., at the court-house, then and there to be sworn as a witness for the state in the case of the State vs. J. R. Cooper and C. C. Ellis, in an action of murder in said court pending. Herein fail…