Perry v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Accusation of enticing servant away. Before Judge Bower. •City court of Bainbridge. April 19, 1901. Jesse McDonald was an illegitimate minor living with his mother in Arlington. He testified in court against one Godwin, who -thereupon threatened him with bodily harm. Fearing this he went to Bainbridge and hired himself to Dr. Toole, for a month’s service, and in about two weeks he wrote to his mother that he was in Dr. Toole’s employment.
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Accusation of enticing servant away. Before Judge Bower. •City court of Bainbridge. April 19, 1901. Jesse McDonald was an illegitimate minor living with his mother in Arlington. He testified in court against one Godwin, who -thereupon threatened him with bodily harm. Fearing this he went to Bainbridge and hired himself to Dr. Toole, for a month’s service, and in about two weeks he wrote to his mother that he was in Dr. Toole’s employment. She thereupon set about to procure a position for him at Arlington, so that she could obtain his earnings and assistance; and she contracted with W. P.…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
Perry was tried upon an accusation charging him with the offense of enticing away the servant of another, and was con-; *938victed. His motion for a new trial, based upon the general grounds only, having been overruled, he excepted.
1. When the case was called in this court a motion was made to dismiss the writ of error, on the ground that the bill of exceptions did not show in what State and county the case was tried. The bill of exceptions recites that “at the April term, 1901, of the city court of Bainbridge, his honor B. B. Bower, judge of said court, presiding, there came on to be tried the…
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