Watson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice in the Supreme Court. Criminal law. Yerdict. Before Judge Underwood. Floyd Superior Court. March Term, 1879. Watson was indicted for larceny after trust.
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Practice in the Supreme Court. Criminal law. Yerdict. Before Judge Underwood. Floyd Superior Court. March Term, 1879. Watson was indicted for larceny after trust. The indictment alleged that he was the agent at Rome of the Singer ■ Manufacturing Company, and in that capacity received of various persons named specified amounts, “which said several sums of money the said Watson received in lawful cur- • rency of the United States, and then and there, in the said county of Floyd, did .wrongfully and fraudulently convert the same to his own use,” etc. The jury found defendant guilty. He moved in…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Justice.
1. In this case it seems that there was a motion in arrest of judgment predicated upon many alleged errors in the bill of indictment; but the motion was overruled and was not excepted to so that we can consider it here. The only case brought before us is the conduct of the court in overruling the motion for a new trial. The case of The State m. Watson in its totality has not been brought up, but only the motion for a new trial in that case. So that we cannot review the motion in arrest or the grounds thereof. It is true that the first ground of the motion for a new trial is…
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