Habersham v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Escape. Arrest. Charge of Court. Warrant. Evidence. Before Judge Tompkins. Chatham Superior Court. May Term, 1875. Hambersham was indicted for the offense of assisting a prisoner (name unknown to the jurors,) to escape from the custody of Lawrence Banks and Chatham Rodgers. The defendant pleaded not guilty.
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Criminal law. Escape. Arrest. Charge of Court. Warrant. Evidence. Before Judge Tompkins. Chatham Superior Court. May Term, 1875. Hambersham was indicted for the offense of assisting a prisoner (name unknown to the jurors,) to escape from the custody of Lawrence Banks and Chatham Rodgers. The defendant pleaded not guilty. The evidence made, iirsubstance, the following case : On the night of June 13th, 1875, at about one o’clock, two clerks, Banks and Rodgers by name, arrested a boy in the house which connected with the store in which they were employed. They state that this boy, with some…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Judge.
1. Logically considered, the trial of a criminal case is an effort to complete a final syllogism, having, for one premise, matter of law; for the other, matter of fact; and for the conclusion, the resulting proposition of guilty or not guilty. It is the duty of the judge to supply the jury with material for the major premise of this syllogism; and it is the duty of the jury to collect from the evidence the minor premise, compare the two, draw the conclusion, and declare it in their verdict. *65Inasmuch as it is possible for the judge to mistake the law or misrepresent it, the…
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