Vaughn v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Practice. Jurors. "Waiver. Prisoner’s statement. Evidence. Charge of court. Before Judge Miller. Bibb superior court. November term, 1890. Vaughn was indicted.for the murder of Bowers. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and was sentenced to imprisonment for twenty years at hard labor in the penitentiaiy.
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Criminal law. Practice. Jurors. "Waiver. Prisoner’s statement. Evidence. Charge of court. Before Judge Miller. Bibb superior court. November term, 1890. Vaughn was indicted.for the murder of Bowers. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and was sentenced to imprisonment for twenty years at hard labor in the penitentiaiy. He excepted to this sentence as cruel, unusual and unwarranted, considering the facts and circumstances of the case; and he also excepted to the overruling of his motion for a new trial. This motion contains many grounds, but it will be necessary to set out only those…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. In Cochran v. The State, 62 Ga. 731, counsel for the accused did not waive by acquiescence the statutory requirement that the panel should be put upon the accused, but gave express notice at the time that it was not waived, the language being, “We waive nothing.” In the present case, the accused and his counsel acquiesced by silence in the omission to put the panel on him, took part in the selection of,, particular jurors from *735the panel, raised at the time no question touching failure to put it upon him, and allowed the trial to proceed until all the evidence in…
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