Thomas v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Boynton. Monroe superior court. August term, 1892. David Thomas was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and he excepted to the overruling of his motion for a new trial. Among the grounds of the motion was an assignment of error upon the refusal to grant a continuance on account of serious illness of A. D. Hammond,, leading counsel for tfie defendant.
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Indictment for murder. Before Judge Boynton. Monroe superior court. August term, 1892. David Thomas was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and he excepted to the overruling of his motion for a new trial. Among the grounds of the motion was an assignment of error upon the refusal to grant a continuance on account of serious illness of A. D. Hammond,, leading counsel for tfie defendant. The indictment was found at the August adjourned term (held in November), 1891. The motion to continue was overruled on the 25th, and the trial set for the 80th of that month,, on which day the motion was…
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
1. The act approved November 26th, 1890, amending the fence laws of the State and repealing section 1449 of the code (Acts of 1890-91, vol. 1, p. 69), is a general law, and is constitutional. It operates generally throughout the whole State. Every county in the State may avail itself of the provisions of this act, and of the one of which it is amendatory. "Whenever and wherever an election is held and fences are abolished by a vote of the people, this act applies. No county or section of the State is excluded from its operation. All that is necessary to put it in force in any…
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