Legal Opinion

Monroe v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided July 15, 1848No. 14PublishedCited by 92 opinions

Indictment for murder, in Lee Superior Court. Tried before .Judge Warren, May Term, 1848. The whole evidence, as embodied in the bill of exceptions, is incorporated in the opinion of the Court.

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

Lumpkin, J.

delivering the opinion.

This cause came on for trial, May, 1848, before his Honor Lott Warren, and the prisoner being arraigned and pleaded not guilty, a jury was regularly empannelled according to law to try said cause. The indictment was read to the jury, from which it appeared that the defendant stood charged with killing one James A. H. Macon, in said county, on the twelfth day of May 1848. The following testimony was introduced on the part of the Slate,to wit:

John S. Johnson sworn, testified and said, he witnessed the shooting on Friday the 12th, at Tilman’s store,…

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