Milam v. State

John A. Milam was placed on trial in Fulton superior court, under an indictment charging him with the murder of Henry Perry. The jury returned a verdict against him of voluntary manslaughter, and he excepts to the judgment of the court overruling his motion for a new trial.

1. It appeared on the trial that the defendant killed the deceased at the house of a lewd woman by the name of Florence Livingston, with whom, the evidence indicated, both men had been illicitly intimate for some time before the homicide. Engaged in the service of this woman was Ella Cooper, who, directly after the killing,…