Tiget v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Spence. Worth superior court. April term, 1899. The' motion for a new trial contained, in addition to the ground dealt with in the first headnote, and other grounds which need not be set forth, the following: Because, as the defendant .started to the stand to make his statement and before he had uttered a word, the court said to him, “Now confine yourself, to the issues in this case.”
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Indictment for murder. Before Judge Spence. Worth superior court. April term, 1899. The' motion for a new trial contained, in addition to the ground dealt with in the first headnote, and other grounds which need not be set forth, the following: Because, as the defendant .started to the stand to make his statement and before he had uttered a word, the court said to him, “Now confine yourself, to the issues in this case.” Later, while he was making his statement and explaining circumstances testified about by the State’s witnesses relative to hiring some cotton-pickers and weighing-some…
1Opinion of the CourtLittle, J.
1. It was error, in the trial of one charged with murder, to admit, over proper objection by defendant, the evidence of a witness-introduced by the State, to the effect that, a day or two previously to the homicide, witness asked the deceased when he was coming to see him; that deceased replied he did not know, that he might be dead. *245before he got a chance to come, that he expected to be hilled, and-, that the man he expected to do it lived two or three steps from his door. Woolf oik v. State 81 Ga. 552; s. c. 85 Ga. 69.
Argued December 4, 1899. Decided January 24, 1900. Indictment for murder.…
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