Harrell v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Police. Officers. Arrest. Evidence. Before Judge Willis. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1885. . Huron Harrell was indicted for assault with intent to murder, committed on tbe person of Zeno Pickett. On the trial, the evidence for the state was, in brief, as follows : Pickett was a policeman in the city of Columbus. On the day of the alleged offense, he was near the bridge leading across the Chattahoochee river into Alabama and was in uniform.
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Criminal Law. Police. Officers. Arrest. Evidence. Before Judge Willis. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1885. . Huron Harrell was indicted for assault with intent to murder, committed on tbe person of Zeno Pickett. On the trial, the evidence for the state was, in brief, as follows : Pickett was a policeman in the city of Columbus. On the day of the alleged offense, he was near the bridge leading across the Chattahoochee river into Alabama and was in uniform. The defendant ran towards the bridge, pursued by another policeman of the city, who hallooed to Pickett to catch the defendant.…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The plaintiff in error was seized by a policeman as he was running across a bridge over the Chattahoochee river to escape into Alabama, and was cut by him with a knife in the hand that held him, so as to break loose, and when the policeman got in front of him again, he cut at him again with the knife, and the policeman had .to get out of the way of the blow, and he escaped. Another man had tried to stop him at the cry of the policeman before he, the policeman, overtook plaintiff in error, and he had cut at him with the open knife. The policeman who was cut ran out to…
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