Colquit v. State

Colquit was convicted of murder in the second degree for killing one Fred. Hunt, colored, and sentenced to the penitentiary for- twenty years. He has appealed in error.

The first assignment is that the Court erred in permitting the State to introduce in evidence the verdict of the Coroner’s jury on the inquisition of this homicide. The verdict was that Colquit killed Hunt, and “said killing was, in our opinion, a coldblooded murder.” Counsel for the prisoner excepted *383at the time to the evidence, but the Court overruled the objection and permitted the verdict of the Coroner’s jury to be read.…