Springer v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Motion for Kew Trial. In Spalding Superior Court. Decided by Judge Speer. Kovember Term, 1865. Springer, being found guilty of the offence of robbery, moved for a new trial, on the ground that A. D. Kunnally, Esq., one of the counsel for the State, residing in the county, and having considerable personal and professional influence, did, after the jury were empanneled, etc., take charge of, feed, and provide, during the night, for the horses of two of the jurors, to-wit,…
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Motion for Kew Trial. In Spalding Superior Court. Decided by Judge Speer. Kovember Term, 1865. Springer, being found guilty of the offence of robbery, moved for a new trial, on the ground that A. D. Kunnally, Esq., one of the counsel for the State, residing in the county, and having considerable personal and professional influence, did, after the jury were empanneled, etc., take charge of, feed, and provide, during the night, for the horses of two of the jurors, to-wit, Touchstone and Moon, at their request, free of charge. The motion was heard and decided upon the following affidavits:…
1Opinion of the CourtHaeeis, J.
"We are thoroughly persuaded, that the associate counsel for the State was solely actuated by his generons nature, in yielding to the request of the jurors engaged in the trial of the criminal cause brought up for review; and we give credit, also, to the affidavits of the j urors, that their verdict was entirely uninfluenced by anything but the testimony. So, .too, in the Iltmber will case, no man who knew Col. Crocker, one of the attorneys for the executor, would make the slightest imputation, at any time, on either his personal or professional conduct, yet, the verdict in favor of his…
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