Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Jurors. Charge of Court. New trial. Continuance. Before Judge Speer. Pike Superior Court. April Term, 1880. To the report contained in the decision it is only necessary to add that one ground of the motion was predicated on the fact that several persons were discussing the case near where the jury were at dinner, and some opinions, adverse to the prisoner, were expressed.
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Criminal law. Jurors. Charge of Court. New trial. Continuance. Before Judge Speer. Pike Superior Court. April Term, 1880. To the report contained in the decision it is only necessary to add that one ground of the motion was predicated on the fact that several persons were discussing the case near where the jury were at dinner, and some opinions, adverse to the prisoner, were expressed. From the affidavits, however, it appears that the jury heard nothing beyond the mere fact that the case was under discussion.
1Opinion of the Court
JACKSON, Chief Justice.
The defendant was indicted for the crime of murder, and was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment in the penitentiary. He made a motion for a new trial on various grounds therein alleged, affecting the charge of the court and' irregularities of the jury, but mainly on the ground that the court committed error in refusing to grant his application for a continuance.
1. 2. There seems to have been no irregularity either of the jury or the bailiff, and no -word spoken in their hearing which could have affected their verdict. There may have…
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