Bailey v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Charge of Court. Practice in Superior Court. New Trial. Before Judge Simmons.. Bibb Superior Court. October Term, 1882. Bailey was indicted for murder. On the trial, the evidence for the state showed, in brief, the following facts: Tatum, the deceased, kept a bar and store. There was a society meeting in progress upstairs over the store, and Bailey was in attendance upon it. He came down and gave Tatum a dollar to be changed.
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Criminal Law. Charge of Court. Practice in Superior Court. New Trial. Before Judge Simmons.. Bibb Superior Court. October Term, 1882. Bailey was indicted for murder. On the trial, the evidence for the state showed, in brief, the following facts: Tatum, the deceased, kept a bar and store. There was a society meeting in progress upstairs over the store, and Bailey was in attendance upon it. He came down and gave Tatum a dollar to be changed. The latter told him to come back into the bar-room and get the change. Before the change was given, some one called the attention of Tatum to the front,…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
1. The court committed no error in charging the jury that it was necessary to lay before them certain rules of law, that they might apply the evidence delivered from the stand to such rules, and determine from the law, as given in charge by the judge, and the testimony of the witnesses, of what crime the defendant was guilty, if guilty at all. It is true that he does not state to them in precise terms, though he does so inferentially, that they are judges of the law and fact; but if the defendant had desired this latter charge, or if he was not satisfied with the statement of…
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