Legal Opinion

Green v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided July 13, 1954No. 18607PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

Henry Green was indicted, tried, and convicted of the murder of Nervie Cooper, without a recommendation of mercy, in Worth Superior Court. A motion for new trial, as 'amended by adding four special grounds, was overruled, and the exception here is to that judgment. Held:

*7461. Conceding but not deciding that the testimony of the witness that the deceased, approximately 45 minutes before she died, said that she was shot by the accused, was not admissible as a dying declaration, any error committed was rendered harmless by the defendant’s unsworn statement in which he…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Owens v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1904
  2. Carrigan v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1950
  3. Harris v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1921
  4. Edmonds v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1946
  5. HARRIS, Alias WILLIAMS v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1950

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Ramsey v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1956
  2. Fields v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1955
  3. Ryder v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1970
  4. Nelson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1966
  5. Fields v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1955

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