Thomas v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Meldrim. Montgomery superior court. June 26, 1919.
1Opinion of the CourtFish, C. J.
Berry Thomas and Dink Thomas were jointly indicted for murder, in the only count in the indictment. Neither was charged as principal in the second degree. Berry Thomas alone was put on trial, and was convicted as charged, with recommendation to life imprisonment. His motion for a new trial having been overruled, he excepted.
1. Complaint is made in the motion for a new trial that the court erred “ in failing to charge the jury substantially as follows: Dying declarations, made by any person in the article of .death, who is conscious of his condition, as to the cause of his death, and the…
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