Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Practice in Superior Court. Officers Jurors. Charge of Court. Before Judge Stewart. Pike Superior Court. October Term, 1881. Henry Jones was indicted for rape.
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Criminal Law. Practice in Superior Court. Officers Jurors. Charge of Court. Before Judge Stewart. Pike Superior Court. October Term, 1881. Henry Jones was indicted for rape. On the trial, the evidence for the state was in brief, as follows: The girl, on whom the attempt was committed, testified that defendant came to her house, and enticed her into an adjoining wood by asking her to show him the way to a neighbors, promising to give her a quarter; that when they came to the wood, defendant gave her whiskey to drink, then threw her down and got on her; she did not consent to his doing so ; he…
1Opinion of the Court
SPEER, Justice.
Plaintiff in error was indicted for the offence of rape, and convicted of assault with an attempt to commit rape. He made a motion for a new trial on various *763grounds, as appear in the record, which was refused and he excepted.
The main grounds relied upon before this court for a reversal of the judgment of the court below were:
(1.) The misconduct of W. P. Bussey, sheriff of said county, for entering the room at night where the jurors, were lodged and under the control of the bailiff and having the door closed after him. How long he remained in the room the record does not…
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