Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Conyers. Glynn superior court. ■ March 21, 1914. Dan Brown was indicted for the murder of James Williams. On the trial the evidence tended to show the following, among other things: The defendant had maintained illicit relations with one Susan Hopkins. On February 12, 1911, he married. Thereafter Williams succeeded him as the paramour of Susan Hopkins.
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Indictment for murder. Before Judge Conyers. Glynn superior court. ■ March 21, 1914. Dan Brown was indicted for the murder of James Williams. On the trial the evidence tended to show the following, among other things: The defendant had maintained illicit relations with one Susan Hopkins. On February 12, 1911, he married. Thereafter Williams succeeded him as the paramour of Susan Hopkins. Later .-the accused sought to renew his relations with the woman, but she refused to permit it. He inquired as to who was associating with her, and she declined to tell him. He said that he knew she was going…
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
■ 1. In Young v. State, 56 Ga. 403, Bleckley, J., said (p. 405) “It was early ruled by this court that newly discovered ■ evidence, was not a favored ground for new trial: 10 Georgia Reports, 512; 12 Ibid. 500. If this ground-was not favored then, how watchfu) *786of it should we be now? The incentives to caution have been multiplied within a few years past, tenfold, perhaps a hundredfold. From causes that have become history, and that are known to us all, the value of affidavits taken promiscuously has come to be low indeed. Only the most credulous of men…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Burge v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1909
- Young v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1876
- Cox v. HillyerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1880
- Fouraker v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1908
- Harris v. RoanSupreme Court of Georgia · 1904
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Williams v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Moss v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1931
- Pulliam v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1945
- Greenway v. SloanSupreme Court of Georgia · 1955
- Parks v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1948
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