Golden v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Murder, from Marion. Tried before Judge Worrill, March Term, 1858. Thomas Golden was put upon his trial for the murder of Nicholas Jordan, and found guilty. Whereupon his counsel moved for a new trial upon the following grounds: 1st. Because the Court erred in refusing to let defendant prove by John Mathews, a witness who had been sworn for fike State, that John Eidson said, on the^evening of the homicide, that he was the whole cause of it. 2d.
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Murder, from Marion. Tried before Judge Worrill, March Term, 1858. Thomas Golden was put upon his trial for the murder of Nicholas Jordan, and found guilty. Whereupon his counsel moved for a new trial upon the following grounds: 1st. Because the Court erred in refusing to let defendant prove by John Mathews, a witness who had been sworn for fike State, that John Eidson said, on the^evening of the homicide, that he was the whole cause of it. 2d. Because the Court erred in refusing to let the defendant prove by.John Hanks, State’s witness, that after he had arrested prisoner, one John Eidson…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
The defendant in this case was convicted of murder, and having been refused a new trial in the Court below, he has prosecuted a writ of error to obtain one in,this Court.
Some of the grounds occupied in the rule for a new trial, have been abandoned on the argument here; and as to some of the rest, we deem it unnecessary to notice. It is but a repetition of the same objection. We' propose to consider the material questions only.
[1.] It is in evidence that after the homicide was committed and Golden arrested, he made his escape, and was found…
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