Cobb v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Murder, in Fulton Superior Court. Tried before Judge-Bull, at October Term, 1858. The following is the bill of exceptions, upon which this case was heard, and which with the opinion delivered by the Court, contains all, the facts necessary to a full understanding of the points adjudicated.
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Murder, in Fulton Superior Court. Tried before Judge-Bull, at October Term, 1858. The following is the bill of exceptions, upon which this case was heard, and which with the opinion delivered by the Court, contains all, the facts necessary to a full understanding of the points adjudicated. Georgia, Fulton County: Be it remembe?'ed, That during the October Term, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, of the Superior Court of said county, his Honor, Orville A. Bull, Judge of said Court presiding, the case of the State of Georgia vs. John Cobb?, jr., being an iudictment for murder, was called, and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
McDonald J.
delivering the opinion.
A new trial was moved for in this case on fourteen grounds. The judgment of the Court refusing the new trial is excepted to, and assigned as error. There are, in the record, several other assignments of error, most of which are made grounds for a new trial, in the motion presented to the Court below, and such as are not and were insisted on before us, we will, proceed to consider, after disposing of the ' points made in *694the motion, and not waived by counsel for the prisoner in this Court.
[1.] The fourteenth ground in the motion was the first…
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