Waycaster v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Maddox. Eloyd superior court. August 13, 1910. Clarence Naycaster was convicted of the murder of Charlie Pyle (sometimes also known as “Bull Dick”), and sentenced to life imprisonment'. To the order of the court overruling his motion for a new trial he excepted. There were no eye-witnesses to the alleged homicide. The body of the deceased was found just off one of the streets of the city of Rome, lying in -a ditch close to the sidewalk.
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Indictment for murder. Before Judge Maddox. Eloyd superior court. August 13, 1910. Clarence Naycaster was convicted of the murder of Charlie Pyle (sometimes also known as “Bull Dick”), and sentenced to life imprisonment'. To the order of the court overruling his motion for a new trial he excepted. There were no eye-witnesses to the alleged homicide. The body of the deceased was found just off one of the streets of the city of Rome, lying in -a ditch close to the sidewalk. One witness testified: “There did not seem to be but one wound, and that first wound was on his right cheek; it went' off…
1Opinion of the CourtHolden, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. In the first ground of the amendment to the motion for a new trial, complaint is made that the court erred in admitting evidence delivered by the sheriff to tbmeffect that the defendant stated to him in jail, on the day defendant was arrested, that he, the defendant, killed the deceased. It is contended that the defendant’s statements to the sheriff were not admissible, because they were not voluntarily made without being induced by another, nor free from the slightest hope of benefit or the remotest fear of injury; which objection to their introduction…
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