Legal Opinion

Carter v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided January 15, 1876PublishedCited by 51 opinions

Criminal law. New trial. Practice in the Superior Coin-' • Jury. Evidence. Insanity. Before Judge Harris. Ware Superior Court, September term, 1874. Reported in the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

Warner, Chief Justice.

The defendant was indicted for the offense of murder, and on his trial therefor was found guilty. A motion was made for a new trial on the following grounds, which was overruled by the court, and the defendant excepted :

1st. Because the court erred in ruling that it had been proved before him, upon challenge of the array of jurors in said case, upon first and second grounds taken, that the commissioners had all been sworn under section 3910 of the Code of Georgia, when, as defendant alleges, the testimony of Mr. Cason showed affirmatively that he had not been sworn.

2d.…

2Cited by51 opinions

  1. Ford v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1882
  2. Mitchell v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1883
  3. Herndon v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1934
  4. Harris v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1940
  5. Woolfolk v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1890

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